Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/česnikъ

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 *česnъ (“garlic”) +‎ *-ikъ.

Noun

*česnìkъ m

1. (dialectal) garlic

Declension

Declension of *česnikъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*česnikъ	*česnika	*česnici
genitive	*česnika	*česniku	*česnikъ
dative	*česniku	*česnikoma	*česnikomъ
accusative	*česnikъ	*česnika	*česniky
instrumental	*česnikъmь, *česnikomь*	*česnikoma	*česniky
locative	*česnicě	*česniku	*česnicěxъ
vocative	*česniče	*česnika	*česnici

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: часни́к (časnýk); чесник (česnyk), чеснік (česnik), чисник (čysnyk), чісни́к (čisnýk), чосни́к (čosnýk) (rare, dialectal)
    • →? Polish: czosnyk, cesnik (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: česník
• West Slavic:
  • >? Czech: česnik (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*česnikъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “часни́к”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 282