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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čerzъ. Doublet of an earlier Old Church Slavonic чрѣсъ (črěsŭ).
Pronunciation
Preposition
чрез • (črez)
- via, by means of, with help of
- Synonyms: посре́дством (posrédstvom), с (s)
Derived terms
- кръз (krǎz, “through”) (dialectal)
- чред (čred, “in turn, in way”) (dialectal, archaic)
References
- “чрез”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “чрез”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic чрѣсъ (črěsŭ) / ⱍⱃⱑⱄⱏ (črěsŭ), from Proto-Slavic *čersъ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-. Doublet of че́рез (čérez), inherited from Old East Slavic.
Pronunciation
Preposition
чрез • (črez)
- (poetic) through; across, over
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čerzъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)kerso-.
Pronunciation
Preposition
чре̏з (Latin spelling črȅz) (+ accusative case)
- (archaic) through
1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod'a:…него би нуждно било да учени Сербльи учине їедну скупштину ради тога, пак то у договору да рїеше, и свима да їаве чрез їедну обштеначиньену и од свиїу одобрену Писменицу, по коїої би се после сваки драговольно владао, макар писао и їус (ꙛ), акамоли дебело їер (ъ) и їаћ (ѣ).- …but rather it would be necessary for the learned Serbs to hold an assembly for that, then to resolve it in an agreement, and to announce it to everyone through one commonly-made and universally authorized Grammar, according to which everyone would afterward voluntarily act, even if they wrote the yus (ꙛ), let alone the hard sign (ъ) and yat (ѣ).
- (archaic) in, within (of action, to be finished within the specified period)
- (archaic) throughout
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