Old East Slavic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic чловѣкъ (člověkŭ) and Old Polish człowiek.

Pronunciation edit

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋeːkʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲeːkʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲɛːk/, /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲeːk/
  • Hyphenation: че‧ло‧вѣ‧къ

Noun edit

человѣкъ (čelověkŭm (related adjective человѣчии)

  1. man, human

Declension edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “человѣкъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1492

Russian edit

Noun edit

человѣ́къ (čelově́km anim (genitive человѣ́ка, nominative plural лю́ди or человѣ́ки*, genitive plural люде́й or человѣ́къ* or человѣ́ковъ*) (* Nominative plural - rare, poetic, other cases of человѣ́къ in plural are used with numbers.)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of челове́к (čelovék).

Declension edit