Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čelnъ
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of undetermined origin; perhaps from *čeliti (“to cut, to abate”) + *-nъ, itself of unknown origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to crook, to shape”).
Noun
[edit]*čȇlnъ m[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of *čȇlnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *čȇlnъ | *čȇlna | *čȇlni |
genitive | *čȇlna | *čelnù | *čẽlnъ |
dative | *čȇlnu | *čelnomà | *čelnòmъ |
accusative | *čȇlnъ | *čȇlna | *čȇlny |
instrumental | *čȇlnъmь, *čȇlnomь* | *čelnomà | *čelný |
locative | *čȇlně | *čelnù | *čelně̃xъ |
vocative | *čelne | *čȇlna | *čȇlni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čelnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “член”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress