Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьrnobylь

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 *čьrnъ (“black”) +‎ *-o- +‎ *bylь.

Noun

*čьrnobylь m

1. mugwort

Declension

Declension of *čьrnobylь (i-stem)

	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
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: црнобиљ, црнобил (rare)

    Latin script: crnobilj, crnobil (rare)

  • Slovene: črnobil
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: černobýl; černobýlí pl
  • Old Polish: czarnobyl
  • Slovak: černobyľ

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