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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čermъša

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

*čermъša

Alternative forms

  • *čermъšь

Etymology

From *čermъxa (hagberry) because of the strong aroma. Also found in dialectal Lithuanian kermùšė (ramson), Proto-West Germanic *hramusō (ramson), Old Irish crem (ramson), Ancient Greek κρόμμῠον (krómmuon), κρόμυον (krómuon, onion), and borrowed from Iranian into Proto-Turkic *sarmïsak (garlic)..

Noun

*čermъša f

  1. ramson, bear garlic (Allium ursinum)

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: чарамша́ (čaramšá)
    • Russian: черемша́ (čeremšá)
    • Ukrainian: черемша́ (čeremšá)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: чремош (čremoš) (obsolete) – pre-1945 чрѣмошъ (črěmoš)
    • Macedonian: сремуш (sremuš)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: сре̑муш, сре̑муша, сре̑муж, сре̑мужа, сри̏јемуш, сри̏јемуша, сри̏јемуж, сри̏јемужа, цре̏муш, цре̏мош, цримуш, цримош, цри̏јемуш, цри̏јемош, цри̏јемуша, цри̏јемуж, цри̏јемужа
      Latin script: srȇmuš, srȇmuša, srȇmuž, srȇmuža, srȉjemuš, srȉjemuša, srȉjemuž, srȉjemuža, crȇmuš, crȇmoš, crimuš, crimoš, crȉjemuš, crȉjemoš, crȉjemuša, crȉjemuž, crȉjemuža
    • Slovene: čẹ́maž
  • West Slavic:

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čermъxa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 68
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “черемша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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