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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čьrvь

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

PIE word
*kʷŕ̥mis

From Pre-Slavic *kírwis, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kírmis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis (“worm”).

Noun

*čь̃rvь or *čь̑rvь m[1][2]

  1. worm, larva

Declension

Derived terms

  • *čьrviti (“to crush worms; to blush”)
    • *čьrvenъ, *čьrvjenъ (“red”)
    • *čьrvěti (“to be red”)
    • *čьrvivъ, *čьrvavъ (“reddish”)
  • *čьrvьjь, *čьrvьcь m, *čьrvica f (diminutives)
  • *čьrvakъ (augmenative)
  • *čьrva (“wormhole”)
  • *čьrvatъ (“plagued by worms”)
  • *čьrmь (“creep”)
  • *čьrtъ (“evil demon”) (possibly)
  • *čьrvъ (“sickle”)
  • *červo (“gut”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: чьрвь (čĭrvĭ), червь (červĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: червъ (červ), червь (červʹ)
      • Russian: червь (červʹ), (dialectal) че́рев (čérev), черь (čerʹ), це́рва f (cérva)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čьrvь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 171
  • Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 539

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čьrvь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 93: “m. i ‘worm, maggot’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “čьrvь čьrvi”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 21); c (PR 138)”
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