Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čelověkъ

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 edit

Alternative forms edit

*čьlověkъ (unaccented *е reduced to *ь)
*člověkъ (unaccented *ь dropped)

Etymology edit

From Early Proto-Slavic *čeláwaiku꙼s,^[1] from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kelawaikas, originally a compound meaning "child of a clan". The first part is from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“crowd, people”), from *kʷel- (“to turn, roll > to travel, settle, cultivate; town”). Cognates include Sanskrit कुल (kula), Ancient Greek τέλος (télos), and Old English scolu. The latter part is akin to Lithuanian vaĩkas (“child”), Latvian vaiks (“boy”) and Old Prussian waiх (“manservant”) (i.e. waiks, with x due to German orthography), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.

Noun edit

*čelověkъ m^[2]^[3]

man, human

Declension edit

Declension of *čelověkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čelověkъ	*čelověka	*čelověci
genitive	*čelověka	*čelověku	*čelověkъ
dative	*čelověku	*čelověkoma	*čelověkomъ
accusative	*čelověkъ	*čelověka	*čelověky
instrumental	čelověkъmь, čelověkomь^*	*čelověkoma	*čelověky
locative	*čelověcě	*čelověku	*čelověcěxъ
vocative	*čelověče	*čelověka	*čelověci

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

Derived terms edit

*čьlověčьjь (“humane”)

Related terms edit

*čeľadь

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: человѣкъ (čelověkŭ), чловѣкъ (člověkŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: чоловѣкъ (čolověk)
    - Belarusian: чалаве́к (čalavjék)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: чолові́к (čolovík)
    - Ukrainian: чолові́к (čolovík, “man, husband”)
  - Russian: челове́к (čelovék)
  - → Latgalian: cylvāks
  - → Latvian: cilvēks
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: чловѣкъ (člověkŭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱍⰾⱁⰲⱑⰽⱏ (člověkŭ)
- Bulgarian: чове́к (čovék), (pre-1945 spelling) човѣкъ (čověk), (dated, literary) челове́к (čelovék)
- Macedonian: чо́век (čóvek)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чо̀век, чо̀вјек
  
  Latin: čòvek, čòvjek
- Slovene: člóvek (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: člověk, čłověk
  - Czech: člověk
- Old Polish: człowiek
  - Masurian: cłoziek
  - Polish: człowiek
  - Silesian: czowiek, człowiek
- Polabian: clåvăk
- Old Slovak: človek
  - Pannonian Rusyn: чловек (človek)
  - Slovak: človek
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: człowiek
  - Slovincian: czlôwjek
- Sorbianː
  - Upper Sorbian: čłowjek
  - Lower Sorbian: cłowjek

References edit

^ Klotz, Emanuel (2017) Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čelověkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 48
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čelověkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 80: “m. o ‘man’”

[1] Klotz, Emanuel (2017) Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN

[2] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čelověkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 48

[3] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čelověkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 80: “m. o ‘man’”

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