česmina
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See also: cesmína
Serbo-Croatian
česmina – Ilex aquifolium
česmina – Berberis vulgaris
česmina – Quercus ilex
česmina – Quercus trojana
Alternative forms
Etymology
From čèsati, čèšati (“to scratch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
čèsmina f (Cyrillic spelling чѐсмина)
- common holly, Ilex aquifolium
- common barberry, Berberis vulgaris
- holm oak, Quercus ilex
- Macedonian oak, Quercus trojana (syn. Quercus macedonica)
Declension
Declension of česmina
Descendants
- → Russian Church Slavonic: чесмина (česmina), чрѣсмина (črěsmina), чересмина (čeresmina)
- → Russian: чесми́на (česmína) (only known from Даль)
- → Czech: cesmína
- → Slovak: cezmína
- → Slovene: česmína, česmȋn
References
- Kolari, Veli (1993) “Zur Entstehung einer semantischen Nord/Süd-Dichotomie in Benennungen einiger Gehölze ur- bzw. gemeinslavischer Provenienz”, in Studia Slavica Finlandensia (in German), volume X, Helsinki, page 19
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “češmȋn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, pages 114–115
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чесмина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 130, Copy 2, Copy 3
- Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 139, Copy 2, Copy 3
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “česminъ/*česmina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
Slovene
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian čèsmina, or inherited from the latest common ancestor of Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.
Pronunciation
Noun
česmína f
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Feminine, a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | česmína | ||
| gen. sing. | česmíne | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
česmína | česmíni | česmíne |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
česmíne | česmín | česmín |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
česmíni | česmínama | česmínam |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
česmíno | česmíni | česmíne |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
česmíni | česmínah | česmínah |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
česmíno | česmínama | česmínami |
Further reading
- “česmina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024