Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krěslo

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kréˀsla, from an earlier *kréˀslan, from Proto-Indo-European *kreh₁s-lo-m

• Derksen: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kréˀsla;
• Nikolaev: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *krēˀslá (“arm-chair, chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreh₁s-lo-m;
• ESSJa: From *kretslo, from *kret- +‎ *-slo, from Proto-Indo-European *kret-, variant of *kert- (“to spin, knit”);
• Vaillant: From *kres-, further etymology is unclear, not related to *kresati;
• Fraenkel: From *kres-/*kros- (“to braid/weave”);
• Machek: From *krěptlo, from *krěpъ or *krěpiti. But usually the suffix is used with verbs and it would be **krěpidlo.

Compare Lithuanian krė́slas (“arm-chair, chair”), Latvian krēsls/krę̂sls (“chair”), Old Prussian creslan (“chair”); also compare Lithuanian kràstis (verb), krãsė / krẽsė (“chair”), Latvian kreša, kreslis.

• Baltic words are cognates (Vasmer, Fraenkel, Vaillant, Derksen)
• Baltic words are borrowed (Brückner, ЭССЯ)

Could be related to *krosno (“loom, weaving frame”), the rectangular form of which is reminiscent of chairs.

Per Nikolaev, the accent paradigm ⟨a⟩ from mobile accent is explained by the alignment of the accent curve by the nominative and accusative plural cases, in which Hirt's law occurred. The same alignment occurred in Lithuanian and Latvian. After that, certain doublets appeared in the Baltic dialects.

*krě̀slo n^[1][2]

1. arm-chair, chair

   Synonym: *stòlъ

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кресло (kreslo)
    • Belarusian: крэ́сла (krésla)
    • Russian: кре́сло (kréslo, “armchair”)
    • Ukrainian: крі́сло (kríslo)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: křeslo
  • Old Polish: krzesło
    • Polish: krzesło, (Middle Polish) krzasło
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: krzasło
  • Slovak: kreslo, krieslo

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кре́сло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kreslo/*krěslo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 126
• Olander, Thomas (2001) “krěslo, pl. krěsla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (NA 137; SA 23; RPT 111)”