Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa

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

Changed by reason of being paired with *višьňa (“sour cherry”) from an earlier *čerša, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin ceresia, the plural of Late Latin ceresium, cerasium reinterpreted as a feminine; ultimately from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”). Possibly not directly from Vulgar Latin but mediated through a Germanic language.

Noun

*čèršьňa f

sweet cherry (fruit, tree, or wood) (Prunus avium)

Inflection

Declension of *čèršьňa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čèršьňa	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇
genitive	*čèršьňę̇	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňь
dative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmъ
accusative	*čèršьňǫ	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇
instrumental	čèršьňējǫ, čèršьňǭ^*	*čèršьňama	*čèršьňāmī
locative	*čèršьňī	*čèršьňu	*čèršьňāsъ
vocative	*čèršьňe	*čèršьňi	*čèršьňę̇

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: черешьнꙗ (čerešĭnja)
  - Belarusian: чарэ́шня (čaréšnja)
  - Russian: чере́шня (čeréšnja)
  - Ukrainian: чере́шня (čeréšnja)
    - → Polish: czereśnia
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: чрѣшьнꙗ (črěšĭnja)
- Bulgarian: чере́ша (čeréša) (influenced by Romanian cireașă)
- Macedonian: цреша (creša), црешна (crešna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чре̏шња, тре̏шња
  
  Latin script: črȅšnja, trȅšnja
- Slovene: črẹ̑šnja, čẹ̑šnja
- → Hungarian: cseresznye
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: třěšně
  - Czech: třešeň, třešně, třešňa, střešeň, střešně, střešňa
- Kashubian: krzesznia
- Old Polish: trześnia, czrześnia
  - Polish: trześnia, tereśnia (Central Greater Poland), trzęśla (Ostróda)
  - Silesian: trześnia
- Old Slovak: čerešňa, čerešeň, črešňa, strešňa, trešňa
  - Pannonian Rusyn: черешня (čerešnja)
  - Slovak: čerešňa, čerešeň
- Sorbian:
  Upper Sorbian: třěšeń, třěšnja

References

Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/čeršьňa”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 95
“češnja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čeršьňa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 78
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чере́шня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress