Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/česnъkъ

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 +‎ *-ъkъ.

Noun

*česnъkъ m

1. garlic

Declension

Declension of *česnъkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*česnъkъ	*česnъka	*česnъci
genitive	*česnъka	*česnъku	*česnъkъ
dative	*česnъku	*česnъkoma	*česnъkomъ
accusative	*česnъkъ	*česnъka	*česnъky
instrumental	*česnъkъmь, *česnъkomь*	*česnъkoma	*česnъky
locative	*česnъcě	*česnъku	*česnъcěxъ
vocative	*česnъče	*česnъka	*česnъci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чеснъкъ (česnŭkŭ)
    • Belarusian: часно́к (časnók), часны́к (časnýk)
      • → Lithuanian: česnakas
    • Russian: чесно́к (česnók)
    • Ukrainian: часни́к (časnýk)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: чесън (česǎn)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: česának, čèšnjāk

    Cyrillic script: чесњак, чѐшња̄к

  • Slovene: češnják
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: česnek
    • Czech: česnek
  • Kashubian: czosnik, czosniôk
  • Polish: czosnek
  • Slovak: cesnak

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чесно́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

vol=2 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “чеснок”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*česnъkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 90