Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьrtežь

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 *čьrtiti +‎ *-ežь.

Noun

*čьrtežь m

1. drawing, sketch

Declension

Declension of *čьrtežь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čьrtežь	*čьrteža	*čьrteži
genitive	*čьrteža	*čьrtežu	*čьrtežь
dative	*čьrtežu	*čьrtežema	*čьrtežemъ
accusative	*čьrtežь	*čьrteža	*čьrtežę̇
instrumental	*čьrtežьmь, *čьrtežemь*	*čьrtežema	*čьrteži
locative	*čьrteži	*čьrtežu	*čьrtežixъ
vocative	*čьrtežu	*čьrteža	*čьrteži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чьртежь (čĭrtežĭ), чертежь (čertežĭ)
    • Russian: чертёж (čertjóž)
    • Ukrainian: че́ртіж (čértiž), че́ртеж (čértež) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: чертѐж (čertèž)
  • Macedonian: цртеж (crtež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: цр́теж

    Latin: cŕtež

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: cřtež
  • Old Slovak: čierťaž
    • Slovak: čierťaž

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čьrtežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 162