Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kresidlo

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

Alternative forms

• *kresadlo

Etymology

From *kresiti (“to strike fire”) +‎ *-dlo (“instrumental suffix”).

Noun

*kresidlo n

1. firestriker

Declension

Declension of *kresidlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kresidlo	*kresidlě	*kresidla
genitive	*kresidla	*kresidlu	*kresidlъ
dative	*kresidlu	*kresidloma	*kresidlomъ
accusative	*kresidlo	*kresidlě	*kresidla
instrumental	*kresidlъmь, *kresidlomь*	*kresidloma	*kresidly
locative	*kresidlě	*kresidlu	*kresidlěxъ
vocative	*kresidlo	*kresidlě	*kresidla

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Ukrainian: кре́сило (krésylo), кре́сіло (krésilo)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кре̏сило

    Latin script: krȅsilo

  • Slovene: kresílo
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: křesidlo
  • Polish: krzesidło, dial. krzesi̊dło
  • Slovak: kresidlo

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kresidlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 125