Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čelo

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-Indo-European *kelH- (“lift”) +‎ *-o. From the same Indo-European root as *xъlmъ (“hill”).

Noun

*čelò n

1. forehead

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čelò	*čèlě	*čelà
genitive	*čelà	*čelù	*čèlъ
dative	*čelù	*čelòma	*čelòmъ
accusative	*čelò	*čèlě	*čelà
instrumental	*čelъ̀mь, *čelòmь*	*čelòma	*čèly
locative	*čelě̀	*čelù	*čèlěxъ
vocative	*čelò	*čèlě	*čelà

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

Derived terms

• *čeľustь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чело (čelo), чоло (čolo)
    • Belarusian: чало́ (čaló)
    • Russian: чело́ (čeló)
    • Ukrainian: чоло́ (čoló)
  • Old Novgorodian: цоло (cʹolo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: чело (čelo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱍⰵⰾⱁ (čelo)

  • Bulgarian: чело́ (čeló)
  • Macedonian: че́ло (čélo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чѐло

    Latin script: čèlo

  • Slovene: čélo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čelo
    • Czech: čelo
  • Old Polish: czoło
    • Polish: czoło
    • Silesian: czoło
  • Old Slovak: čelo, čolo
    • Pannonian Rusyn: чоло (čolo)
    • Slovak: čelo
  • Polabian: celü
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: czoło (rare)
    • Slovincian: czôlô (“face”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: čoło
    • Lower Sorbian: coło

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čelo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 45
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чело”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress