Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čislo

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 *čisti (“to read”) +‎ *-slo.

Noun

*čīslò n

1. number

Inflection

Declension of *čīslò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čīslò	*čĩslě	*čīslà
genitive	*čīslà	*čīslù	*čĩslъ
dative	*čīslù	*čīslòma	*čīslòmъ
accusative	*čīslò	*čĩslě	*čīslà
instrumental	*čīslъ̀mь, *čīslòmь*	*čīslòma	*čĩsly
locative	*čīslě̀	*čīslù	*čĩslěxъ
vocative	*čīslò	*čĩslě	*čīslà

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

Derived terms

• *čisľěvati (“to account”)
  • *načisľěvati (“to add up, to charge”)
  • *jьzčisľěvati (“to calculate”)
• *čislenъ (“numeral”)
• *čislovъ (“numeric”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: число (čislo)
    • Belarusian: чысло́ (čysló)
    • Russian: число́ (čisló)
    • Ukrainian: число́ (čysló)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: число (čislo)
  • Serbo-Croatian: číslo
  • Slovene: číslo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: číslo
  • Old Polish: czysło
  • Slovak: číslo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: čisło
      • → Lower Sorbian: cysło

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “число́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čislo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 04 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 116