Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/česnъkъ

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

From *česnъ +‎ *-ъkъ.

Noun

*česnъkъ m

garlic

Declension

Declension of *česnъkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*česnъkъ	*česnъka	*česnъci
genitive	*česnъka	*česnъku	*česnъkъ
dative	*česnъku	*česnъkoma	*česnъkomъ
accusative	*česnъkъ	*česnъka	*česnъky
instrumental	česnъkъmь, česnъkomь^*	*česnъkoma	*česnъky
locative	*česnъcě	*česnъku	*česnъcěxъ
vocative	*česnъče	*česnъka	*česnъci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чеснъкъ (česnŭkŭ)
  - Belarusian: часно́к (časnók), часны́к (časnýk)
    - → Lithuanian: česnakas
  - Russian: чесно́к (česnók)
  - Ukrainian: часни́к (časnýk)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: чесън (česǎn)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: česának, čèšnjāk
  
  Cyrillic script: чесњак, чѐшња̄к
- Slovene: češnják
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: česnek
  - Czech: česnek
- Kashubian: czosnik, czosniôk
- Polish: czosnek
- Old Slovak: cesnak, cesnek, cesnok, česnak, česnek
  - Pannonian Rusyn: цеснок (cesnok)
  - Slovak: cesnak

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чесно́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*česnъkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 90