чешуꙗ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

  • чешюꙗ (češjuja), чешвеꙗ (češveja), чешулꙗ (češulja)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *češujà. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈjɑ/→/t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/→/t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈjɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/

  • Hyphenation: че‧шу‧ꙗ

Noun

чешуꙗ (češuja) f (related adjective чешуичатъ, diminutive чешуика)

  1. scale (of fish, reptiles, etc.)
    Synonym: луска́ (luská)
  2. scaly roofing

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
    • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
  • Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
    • ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чешꙋꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1516
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чешвеꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1515

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

  • чешуѧ́ (češujá)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic чешуꙗ́ (češujá), from Proto-Slavic *češujà, from *česàti.[1] Cognate with Russian чешуя́ (češujá), Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Noun

чешуꙗ • (češuja) f inan

  1. scale (of fish, reptiles, etc.)
    Synonym: луска́ (luská)
    Тело его ꙗко щиты сълитые, споено чешуѧми в купу стискающимисѧ ― Telo eho jako ščity slityje, spojeno češujami v kupu stiskajuščimisja ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kes- (0 c, 4 e)

Descendants

  • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*češuja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 91

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