Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьmeľь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kimelаs, from Proto-Indo-European *km̥H-el-i-, probably onomatopoeic from a root *kemH- (“to hum”) + *-eľь.
Cognate with Lithuanian kamanė (“bumblebee”), Latvian kamene (“bumblebee”), Old Prussian camus (“bumblebee”), Proto-Germanic *humelaz (“bumblebee”).
Noun
*čьmèľь m[1]
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *čьmèľь | *čьmeľà | *čьmeľì |
| genitive | *čьmeľà | *čьmeľù | *čьmèľь |
| dative | *čьmeľù | *čьmeľèma | *čьmèľemъ |
| accusative | *čьmèľь | *čьmeľà | *čьmeľę̇̀ |
| instrumental | *čьmeľь̀mь, *čьmeľèmь* | *čьmeľèma | *čьmèľi |
| locative | *čьmeľì | *čьmeľù | *čьmèľixъ |
| vocative | *čьmeľu | *čьmeľà | *čьmeľì |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: чмѐла
- Latin script: čmèla
- Slovene: čmŕlj (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
Related terms
- *komãrъ (“mosquito”)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čьmelь/*čьmela”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 145
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шмель”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “čmrlj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*čьmel'ь̏”