Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čelověkъ

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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 *kelawaikas, originally a compound. The first part is from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (crowd, people), from *kʷel- (to turn, roll > to travel, settle, cultivate; town). Cognates include Sanskrit कुल (kula), Ancient Greek τέλος (télos), and Old English scolu. The latter part is akin to Lithuanian vaĩkas (child), Latvian vaiks (boy) and Old Prussian waiх (manservant) (i.e. waiks, with x due to German orthography), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.

Noun

*čelověkъ m[1]

  1. man, human

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Descendants

Further reading

  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “181”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čelověkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 80:m. o ‘man’