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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čelověčьnъ

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

By surface analysis, *čelověkъ (human) + *-ьnъ.

Adjective

*čelověčьnъ[1]

  1. humane

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: человѣчьнъ (čelověčĭnŭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: чоловѣчный (čolověčnyj)
        • Belarusian: чалаве́чны (čalavjéčny)
        • Ukrainian: чолові́чний (čolovíčnyj)
      • Russian: челове́чный (čelovéčnyj)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⱍⰾⱁⰲⱑⱍⱐⱀⱏ (člověčĭnŭ)
      Old Cyrillic script: чловѣчьнъ (člověčĭnŭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чо̏вјечан
      Latin script: čȍvječan
    • Slovene: človéčen (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: člověčný

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čelověčьnъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 48
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