чешуꙗ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• чешюꙗ (češjuja), чешвеꙗ (češveja), чешулꙗ (češulja)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *češujà. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈjɑ/→/t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/→/t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈjɑ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɛɕuˈja/

• Hyphenation: че‧шу‧ꙗ

Noun

чешуꙗ (češuja) f (related adjective чешуичатъ, diminutive чешуика)

1. scale (of fish, reptiles, etc.)

   Synonym: луска́ (luská)

2. scaly roofing

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
  • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
• Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
  • ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чешꙋꙗ”, 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), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1516
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чешвеꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1515

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• чешуѧ́ (češujá)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic чешуꙗ́ (češujá), from Proto-Slavic *češujà, from *česàti. Cognate with Russian чешуя́ (češujá), Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Noun

чешуꙗ • (češuja) f inan

1. scale (of fish, reptiles, etc.)

   Synonym: луска́ (luská)

   Тело его ꙗко щиты сълитые, споено чешуѧми в купу стискающимисѧ ― Telo eho jako ščity slityje, spojeno češujami v kupu stiskajuščimisja ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kes- (0 c, 4 e)

Descendants

• Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “чешуя”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 385