чешуꙗ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

  • чешоуꙗ́ (češujá), чешꙋꙗ́ (češujá), чешюꙗ́ (češjujá), чешуѧ́ (češuę́), чешвеꙗ́ (češvejá), чешꙋлѧ (češulę)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *češujà. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Noun

чешуꙗ́ (češujá) f (related adjective чешуичатꙑи, diminutive чешуика)

  1. scales
    Synonym: луска́ (luská)
  2. scaly roofing

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: чешуꙗ́
    • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
  • Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
    • Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)

Further reading

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

  • чешуѧ́

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic чешуꙗ́ (češujá), from Proto-Slavic *češujà, from *česàti.[1] Cognate with Russian чешуя́ (češujá), Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Noun

чешуꙗ́ (transliteration needed) f inan

  1. scales
    • Тело его ꙗко щиты сълитые, споено чешуѧми в купу стискающимисѧ(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Synonym: луска́
Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kes-‎ (0 c, 4 e)

Descendants

  • Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), *češuja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 91

Further reading

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