Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьrnobylь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *čьrnъ (“black”) + *-o- + *bylь.
Noun
*čьrnobylь m
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *čьrnobylь | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobylьje, *čьrnobyľe* |
| genitive | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobylьju, *čьrnobyľu* | *čьrnobylьjь, *čьrnobyli* |
| dative | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobylьma | *čьrnobylьmъ |
| accusative | *čьrnobylь | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobyli |
| instrumental | *čьrnobylьmь | *čьrnobylьma | *čьrnobylьmi |
| locative | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobylьju, *čьrnobyľu* | *čьrnobylьxъ |
| vocative | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobyli | *čьrnobylьje, *čьrnobyľe* |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: черно́бꙑль (černóbylĭ)
- Belarusian: чарно́быль (čarnóbylʹ) (dialectal)
- Carpathian Rusyn: чорно́быль (čornóbŷlʹ)
- Ukrainian: чорно́биль (čornóbylʹ), чорно́бил (čornóbyl); черно́бель (černóbelʹ), черно́біль (černóbilʹ), черно́биль (černóbylʹ), чорно́бель (čornóbelʹ), чорно́биль (čornóbylʹ), чорно́біль (čornóbilʹ), чорно́біл (čornóbil) (dialectal)
- Russian: чернобы́ль (černobýlʹ), чернобы́л (černobýl)
- ⇒ Old East Slavic: Черно́бꙑль (Černóbylĭ) (toponym)
- Old Ruthenian: Чорно́быль (Čornóbylʹ), Чернобыль (Černobylʹ), Чарнобыль (Čarnobylʹ), Чрънабыль (Črnabylʹ)
- Belarusian: Чарно́быль (Čarnóbylʹ)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Чорно́быль (Čornóbŷlʹ)
- Ukrainian: Чорно́биль (Čornóbylʹ)
- → Polish: Czarnobyl (semantic loan)
- Russian: Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ)
- → English: Chernobyl
- Old Ruthenian: Чорно́быль (Čornóbylʹ), Чернобыль (Černobylʹ), Чарнобыль (Čarnobylʹ), Чрънабыль (Črnabylʹ)
- Old East Slavic: черно́бꙑль (černóbylĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: црнобиљ, црнобил (rare)
- Latin script: crnobilj, crnobil (rare)
- Slovene: črnobil
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čьrnobylъ / *čьrnobylь / *čьrnobylьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 153
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “чорно́биль”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 342