Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa

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

*čèršьňa

Etymology

Changed by reason of being paired with *višьňa (“sour cherry”) from an earlier *čerša, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin ceresia, the plural of Late Latin ceresium, cerasium reinterpreted as a feminine; ultimately from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”). Possibly not directly from Vulgar Latin but mediated through a Germanic language.

Noun

*čèršьňa f

1. sweet cherry (fruit, tree, or wood) (Prunus avium)

Inflection

Declension of *čèršьňa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čèršьňa	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇
genitive	*čèršьňę̇	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňь
dative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmъ
accusative	*čèršьňǫ	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇
instrumental	*čèršьňējǫ, *čèršьňǭ*	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmī
locative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňāsъ
vocative	*čèršьňe	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇

^* 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: черешьнѧ (čerešĭnę)
    • Belarusian: чарэ́шня (čaréšnja)
    • Russian: чере́шня (čeréšnja)
    • Ukrainian: чере́шня (čeréšnja)
      • → Polish: czereśnia
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: чрѣшьнꙗ (črěšĭnja)
  • Bulgarian: чере́ша (čeréša) (influenced by Romanian cireașă)
  • Macedonian: цреша (creša), црешна (crešna)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чре̏шња, тре̏шња

    Latin script: črȅšnja, trȅšnja

  • Slovene: črẹ̑šnja, čẹ̑šnja
  • → Hungarian: cseresznye
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: třěšně
    • Czech: třešeň, třešně, třešňa, střešeň, střešně, střešňa
  • Kashubian: krzesznia
  • Old Polish: trześnia, czrześnia
    • Polish: trześnia, tereśnia (Central Greater Poland)
    • Silesian: trześnia
  • Old Slovak: čerešňa, čerešeň, črešňa, strešňa, trešňa
    • Pannonian Rusyn: черешня (čerešnja)
    • Slovak: čerešňa, čerešeň
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: třěšeń, třěšnja

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 95
• “češnja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čeršьňa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 78
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чере́шня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress