Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čaja

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

The cry of a lapwing.

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kḗˀjāˀ (“gull, lapwing”), from onomatopoeia of cry *kḗˀ-kḗˀ.

Noun

*čàja f

1. gull, lapwing

Declension

Declension of *čaja (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čaja	*čàji	*čàję̇
genitive	*čàję̇	*čàju	*čàjь
dative	*čàjī	*čàjama	*čàjāmъ
accusative	*čàjǫ	*čàji	*čàję̇
instrumental	*čàjējǫ, *čàjǭ*	*čàjama	*čàjāmī
locative	*čàjī	*čàju	*čàjāsъ
vocative	*čàje	*čàji	*čàję̇

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *čàjica
• *čàjikъ
  • Slovak: čajik
• *čàjьka

Descendants

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: čaja ^(dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čaja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 10