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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/česati

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei, from Proto-Indo-European *kes-.

Verb

*česàti[1][2]

  1. to scratch (one's head)
  2. to comb (one's hair or a horse)
  3. to card (tess.)

Inflection
Conjugation of *česati, *česa, *češetь (?, -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*česanьje *česati *česatъ *česalъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *česanъ *češemъ
Active *česavъ *češę
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *česaxъ*česa*česa *češǫ*češeši*češetь
Dual *česaxově*česasta*česaste *češevě*češeta*češete
Plural *česaxomъ*česaste*česašę *češemъ*češete*češǫtь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *česaaxъ*česaaše*česaaše —*češi*češi
Dual *česaaxově*česaašeta*česaašete *češivě*češita—
Plural *česaaxomъ*česaašete*česaaxǫ *češimъ*češite—

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: чесати (česati)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: чесати (česati)
      Glagolitic script: ⱍⰵⱄⰰⱅⰻ (česati)
    • Bulgarian: че́ша (čéša)
    • Macedonian: чеша (češa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чѐшати
      Latin script: čèšati
    • Slovene: česáti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: česati
    • Kashubian: czosac
    • Polabian: cesăt
    • Old Polish: czosać
    • Slovak: česať
    • Slovincian: czôsac
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: česać
      • Lower Sorbian: cesaś

Further reading
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “чеса́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 385
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*česati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 85
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чеса́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*česàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 86: “v. (b) ‘scratch, comb’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “česati: česjǫ česjetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b kæmme, hækle (SA 210; PR 136)”
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