Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/češuja

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *česàti +‎ *-uja.

Noun

*češuja f

  1. scales

Declension

Declension of *češuja (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *češuja *češuji *češuję̇
genitive *češuję̇ *češuju *češujь
dative *češuji *češujama *češujamъ
accusative *češujǫ *češuji *češuję̇
instrumental *češujejǫ, *češujǫ** *češujama *češujami
locative *češuji *češuju *češujasъ, *češujaxъ*
vocative *češuje *češuji *češuję̇

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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: чешуꙗ (češuja), чешюꙗ (češjuja)
      • Old Ruthenian: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
        • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
      • Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
        • ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́лꙗ (češúlja); чешвеꙗ (češveja)
        • Russian: чечу́ля (čečúlja), цоцу́ля (cocúlja) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́ичатъ (češúičatŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: чешоуꙗ (češuja)
      Glagolitic script: ⱍⰵⱎⱆⱑ (češuě)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: чушу́лка (čušúlka); чушу́л'ка (čušúl'ka) (dialectal)
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: češuja
      • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: češuļa (archaic, rare)
    • ⇒ Slovene: češúlja, česúlja, češúlja, šešúlja, čehulja
  • West Slavic:
    • ⇒ Old Czech: čečule
      • ⇒ Czech: češuje, češule; šešule (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Czech: čečulka (dialectal)
    • Polish: szczeszuja, szczeczuja, szczeżuja
      • ⇒ Polish: szażuła, szeszuła (archaic); ščežula (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Slovak: šešuľa

Further reading

  • 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
  • Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “češuja : češuľa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 177
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чешуя́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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