Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/češuja

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

Etymology

From *česàti +‎ *-uja.

Noun

*češuja f

1. scales

Declension

Declension of *češuja (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*češuja	*češuji	*češuję̇
genitive	*češuję̇	*češuju	*češujь
dative	*češuji	*češujama	*češujamъ
accusative	*češujǫ	*češuji	*češuję̇
instrumental	*češujejǫ, *češujǫ**	*češujama	*češujami
locative	*češuji	*češuju	*češujasъ, *češujaxъ*
vocative	*češuje	*češuji	*češuję̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
    • Old Ruthenian: чешуѧ́ (češujá)
      • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Belarusian: чешу́йка (čješújka)
    • Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
      • ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́лѧ (češúlę); чешвеꙗ (češveja)
      • Russian: чечу́ля (čečúlja), цоцу́ля (cocúlja) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́ичатꙑи (češúičatyi)
      • ⇒ Russian: чешу́йчатый (češújčatyj)
        • → Ukrainian: чешуша́тий (češušátyj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: чешоуꙗ (češuja)

    Glagolitic script: ⱍⰵⱎⱆⱑ (češuě)

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: чушу́лка (čušúlka); чушу́л'ка (čušúl'ka) (dialectal)
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: češuja
    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: češuļa (archaic, rare)
  • ⇒ Slovene: češúlja, česúlja, češúlja, šešúlja, čehulja
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Czech: čečule
    • ⇒ Czech: češuje, češule; šešule (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Czech: čečulka (dialectal)
  • Polish: szczeszuja, szczeczuja, szczeżuja
    • ⇒ Polish: szażuła, szeszuła (archaic); ščežula (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Slovak: šešuľa

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*češuja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “češuja : češuľa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 177
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чешуя́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress