Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьlnъ

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

Noun

*čьlnъ m

1. small boat

Inflection

Declension of *čьlnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čьlnъ	*čьlna	*čьlni
genitive	*čьlna	*čьlnu	*čьlnъ
dative	*čьlnu	*čьlnoma	*čьlnomъ
accusative	*čьlnъ	*čьlna	*čьlny
instrumental	*čьlnъmь, *čьlnomь*	*čьlnoma	*čьlny
locative	*čьlně	*čьlnu	*čьlněxъ
vocative	*čьlne	*čьlna	*čьlni

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

Descendants

• Old East Slavic: чьлнъ (čĭlnŭ)
  • Belarusian: чо́вен (čóvjen)
  • Russian: чёлн (čoln)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: чо́вен (čóven)
  • Ukrainian: чо́вен (čóven)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: чълн (čǎln), чо́лнец (čólnec)
  • Macedonian: чун (čun)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чу̑н

    Latin script: čȗn

  • Slovene: čȏłn (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: člun
  • Kashubian: czôłn
  • Polabian: cåun
  • Old Polish: czołn
    • Polish: czółn (obsolete), czółno
  • Slovak: čln
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: cołn
    • Upper Sorbian: čołm

• Unsorted borrowings:
  • Hungarian: csónak, csolnak (archaic, folksy)
    • → Bavarian: Schinakl
    • → Austrian German: Schinakel
  • → Middle High German: zülle
    • German: Zille

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чёлн”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress