Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čemerъ

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

*čemerъ (sense 1)

*čemerъ (sense 2)

1. Numbered list item

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kemeras, Proto-Indo-European *kemer-. Cognates include Lithuanian kemeras (“Eupatorium cannabinum”), Latvian cemeriņš (“Helleborus”), Greek χάμαρος (chámaros, “Aconitum”).

Noun

*čemerъ m

2. false hellebore (any plant of the genus Veratrum)
4. hellebore (any plant of the genus Helleborus)
   1. → venom, poison from these plants
   2. → disease caused by these plants
      1. → (East and South Slavic) venom, poison
      2. → (East and South Slavic) anger, wrath, bitterness

Declension

Declension of *čemerъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čemerъ	*čemera	*čemeri
genitive	*čemera	*čemeru	*čemerъ
dative	*čemeru	*čemeroma	*čemeromъ
accusative	*čemerъ	*čemera	*čemery
instrumental	*čemerъmь, *čemeromь*	*čemeroma	*čemery
locative	*čemerě	*čemeru	*čemerěxъ
vocative	*čemere	*čemera	*čemeri

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

Derived terms

nouns

• *čemerica f (“Veratrum, Helleborus”)
• *čemerika f (“Veratrum, Helleborus”)

 

verbs

• *čemeriti impf (“to poison, anger”)

 

adjectives

• *čemeritъ (“poisonous, bitter”)
• *čemerьnъ (“poisonous”)

 

Related terms

• *čemerь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чемеръ (čemerŭ)
    • Belarusian: чэ́мер (čémjer)
    • Russian: че́мер (čémer)
    • Ukrainian: чемер (čemer)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: чемеръ (čemerŭ) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: че́мер (čémer)
  • Macedonian: чемер (čemer)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: че̏ме̑р

    Latin script: čȅmȇr

  • Slovene: čemér
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: čemer (dated)
  • Polish: cemir, ciemier, cimierz, czemier (dialectal)
  • Slovak: čemer

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Lithuanian: čemerỹs
  • → Hungarian: csömör
  • → Romanian: cemer (dialectal)

Further reading

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