Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/černъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *kernas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-no-s, from *kʷer-.

Noun

*čẽrnъ m

1. stalk, stem, trunk
2. offshoot
3. handle (of a vessel)

   → pot

4. molar

Inflection

Declension of *čẽrnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čẽrnъ	*čērnà	*čērnì
genitive	*čērnà	*čērnù	*čẽrnъ
dative	*čērnù	*čērnòma	*čērnòmъ
accusative	*čẽrnъ	*čērnà	*čērnỳ
instrumental	*čērnъ̀mь, *čērnòmь*	*čērnòma	*čẽrny
locative	*čērně̀	*čērnù	*čẽrněxъ
vocative	*černe	*čērnà	*čērnì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

• *čerěnъ
• *čerěnь
• *černa f

Related terms

• *čara (“bowl”)
• *kory (“root”)
• *kъřь (“bush, hedge”)
• *kъrnъ (“maimed”)

Derived terms

• *černovъ (“molar”)
• *černъkъ (“stalk”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: церенъ (cerenŭ)
    • Belarusian: чарэ́нь (čarénʹ)
    • Russian: черен (čeren), чрен (čren), цере́н (cerén), црен (cren), цирен (ciren), че́рен (čéren)
    • Ukrainian: чері́нь (čerínʹ), чэрэ́н (čèrè́n) (dialectal), чери́н (čerýn), чарэ́н (čarè́n), черэ́н (čerè́n), черо́нь (čerónʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: чрѣнъ (črěnŭ)
  • Bulgarian: чрен (čren) (archaic)
  • Macedonian: црен (cren)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: че́рјен, чре̏н (dialectal)

    Latin script: čérjen, črȅn (dialectal)

  • Slovene: čerẹ̑n, črẹ̑n
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čeřěn
    • Czech: čeřen
  • Old Polish: czeran, czran, czrzan, trzan
    • Polish: trzon
      • → Czech: třeň
    • Silesian: strzōn
  • Slovak: čereň
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: šeŕeń

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čerěnъ/ь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 64
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “че́рен”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress