Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trěska

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

• *trьska?

Etymology

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For the meaning "cod" compare Polish wątłusz (“cod”) (< wątły (“frail”)), Slovene polénovka (< poléno (“log”)), German Stockfisch (“stockfish”) (< Stock (“stick”)). Less likely, cognate with Proto-Germanic *þurskaz (< *ters- (“to dry; wither; thirst”)).

Noun

*trěska f

1. sliver, chip, splinter
2. cod (the fish) (East Slavic and Slovene only)

Inflection

Declension of *trěska (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*trěska	*trěscě	*trěsky
genitive	*trěsky	*trěsku	*trěskъ
dative	*trěscě	*trěskama	*trěskamъ
accusative	*trěskǫ	*trěscě	*trěsky
instrumental	*trěskojǫ, *trěskǫ**	*trěskama	*trěskami
locative	*trěscě	*trěsku	*trěskasъ, *trěskaxъ*
vocative	*trěsko	*trěscě	*trěsky

^* -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).

Related terms

• *trěskati
• *trěskъ
• *troska

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: трѣска (trěska), треска (treska)
    • Belarusian: трэска (treska), треска (trjeska)
    • Russian: тре́ска (tréska), треска́ (treská)
      • → Bulgarian: тре́ска (tréska)
      • → Czech: treska
      • → Lithuanian: treska
      • → Slovak: treska
    • Ukrainian: тріска (triska)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: трѣска (trěska)

    Glagolitic: ⱅⱃⱑⱄⰽⰰ (trěska)

  • Bulgarian: треска́ (treská)
  • Macedonian: треска (treska)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тре̏ска

    Latin script: trȅska

  • Slovene: treskà, tŕska
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: třieska
    • Czech: tříska
  • Polish: trzaska
  • Slovak: trieska
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: třěska
    • Lower Sorbian: tśěska

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “треска”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “треска”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 261
• Zhuravljov A. F. (2007) “Из наблюдений над славяно-иранскими семантическими параллелями (slavo-ossetica). Статья 2.”, in Этимология 2003‒2005, Moscow, page 102: “stʼælfæn | (æ)stʼælfæn 'искра'”