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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/česati

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei, from Proto-Indo-European *kes-.

Verb

*česàti [1][2]

  1. to scratch
  2. to comb

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: чесати (česati)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: че́ша (čéša)
    • Macedonian: чеша (češa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: чѐсати
      Latin: čèsati
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): česȁti
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): česȁt
    • Slovene: česáti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: česat
    • Polabian: cesăt
    • Old Polish: czosać
    • Slovak: česať
    • Slovincian: čʉ̀ɵ̯săc
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: česać
      • Lower Sorbian: cesaś

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*česàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86: “v. (b) ‘scratch, comb’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), česati: česjǫ česjetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b kæmme, hækle (SA 210; PR 136)”
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