Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čersti

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.

• *čьrsti (East Slavic)

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kerstei, derived from a t-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

*čersti impf^[1]

1. to carve, slash?

   Synonym: *rězati

2. to draw

   Synonyms: *čьrtati, *pьsati

3. to furrow?

   Synonyms: *borzditi, *orati

Church Slavonic:

East Slavic:

• *čersъ (“through”)
• *kortъ (“time”)
• *kortъkъ (“short”)

• Church Slavonic: чрѣсти (črěsti) (Russian)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “черту”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čersti, *čьrtǫ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 75
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*občersti/*občьrsti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 75
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чьрсти, чьрту, чрьту”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1568
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “очьрсти, очерести, очьрту”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 849