Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

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
Accusative	*čèršьňǫ	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇
Genitive	*čèršьňę̇	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňь
Locative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňāsъ
Dative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmъ
Instrumental	čèršьňējǫ, čèršьňǭ^*	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmī
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: черѐша (čerѐša) (influenced by Romanian cireașă)
- Macedonian: цреша (creša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: чре̏шња, тре̏шња
  
  Latin: črȅšnja, trȅšnja
- Slovene: črẹ̑šnja, čẹ̑šnja

West Slavic:
- Czech: třešeň, třešně, třešňa
- Old Polish: czrześnia, trzesznia, czrzesznia
  - Polish: trześnia (regional)
  - → Latgalian: tresneica
- Silesian: trzyśńa
- Slovak: čerešňa
- Sorbian:
  Upper Sorbian: třěšeń
→ Hungarian: cseresznye (via some Slavic language)

References

Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “czereśnia”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 95
“Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa” in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU - portal Fran
Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “чере́шня”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

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