человѣкъ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic чловѣкъ (člověkŭ) and Old Polish człowiek.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋeːkʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲeːkʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲɛːk/, /t͡ɕɛlɔˈʋʲeːk/
  • Hyphenation: че‧ло‧вѣ‧къ

Noun

человѣкъ (čelověkŭ) m (related adjective человѣчии)

  1. man, human

Declension

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: чоловѣкъ (čolověk)
  • Russian: челове́к (čelovék)
  • Latgalian: cylvāks
  • Latvian: cilvēks

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “человѣкъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1492

Russian

Noun

человѣ́къ • (čelově́k) m anim (genitive человѣ́ка, nominative plural лю́ди or человѣ́ки*, genitive plural люде́й or человѣ́къ* or человѣ́ковъ*) (* Nominative plural - rare, poetic, other cases of человѣ́къ in plural are used with numbers.)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of челове́к (čelovék).

Declension

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