Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/těsnъ

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

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From earlier *těsknъ. Morphologically *těsk- +‎ *-nъ

Adjective

*těsnъ

1. narrow

   Synonym: *ǫzъkъ

   Antonym: *širokъ

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• *tiskati
• *těsto (possibly)

Descendants

• East Slavic: тѣснъ (těsnŭ)
  • Belarusian: це́сны (cjésny)
  • Russian: те́сный (tésnyj)
  • Ukrainian: ті́сний (tísnyj)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: тѣснъ (těsnŭ)
    • Bulgarian: те́сен (tésen)
  • Macedonian: тесен (tesen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те́сан, тије́сан

    Latin: tésan, tijésan

  • Slovene: têsen

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: těsný
  • Polish: ciasny
  • Slovak: tesný
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: śěsny
    • Upper Sorbian: ćěsny

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “те́сный”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*těsnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 492