Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krěslo

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

• Derksen: from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krésla;
• Nikolaev: from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krē̂slod, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krē̂slom, from Proto-Indo-European *kré̠h₁s-lo̠-m (“chair”);
• ЭССЯ: from *kretslo, from *kret- +‎ *-slo, from Proto-Indo-European *kret-, variant of *kert- (“to spin, knit”);
• Vaillant: from *kres-, further etymology is unclear, not related to *kresati;
• Fraenkel: from *kres-/*kros- (“to braid/weave”);
• Machek: from *krěptlo, from *krěpъ or *krěpiti. But usually the suffix is used with verbs and it would be **krěpidlo.

Compare Lithuanian krė́slas m (“armchair, chair”), Latvian krēsls/krę̂sls m (“chair, armchair”), Old Prussian creslan (“chair, armchair”). Also compare Lithuanian kràstis (verb), krãsė / krẽsė (“chair”), Latvian kreša, kreslis.

• Baltic words are cognates (Vasmer, Fraenkel, Vaillant, Derksen)
• Baltic words are borrowed (Brückner, ЭССЯ)

Noun

*krě̀slo n

1. armchair, chair

   Synonym: *stolъ

Declension

Declension of *krě̀slo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*krě̀slo	*krě̀slě	*krě̀sla
genitive	*krě̀sla	*krě̀slu	*krě̀slъ
dative	*krě̀slu	*krě̀sloma	*krě̀slomъ
accusative	*krě̀slo	*krě̀slě	*krě̀sla
instrumental	*krě̀slъmь, *krě̀slomь*	*krě̀sloma	*krě̀slȳ
locative	*krě̀slě	*krě̀slu	*krě̀slě̄xъ
vocative	*krě̀slo	*krě̀slě	*krě̀sla

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

Related terms

• *krosno
• *kroma

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: крэ́сла (krésla)
  • Russian: кре́сло (kréslo)
  • Ukrainian: крі́сло (kríslo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian: кресло́ (kresló)
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified script:

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• West Slavic:
  • Czech: křeslo
  • Old Polish: krzasło
    • Polish: krzesło
  • Slovak: kreslo, krieslo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кре́сло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kreslo/*krěslo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 126