černь

I. černъ I; černь I Grammatical information: m. o; m. jo Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `handle'

Page in Trubačev: IV 69-70

Church Slavic:

črěnъ (RuCS) `handle' [m o]

Russian:

čéren' (dial.) `handle' [m jo]

Polish:

trzon `handle' [m o]

Upper Sorbian:

črona `handle' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

crȅn `handle' [m o]

Slovene:

črẹ̑n `handle' [m o]

Indo-European reconstruction: k^wer-no-

Other cognates:

Skt. kárṇa- `ear'

II. černъ II;

černь II

Grammatical information: m. o; m. jo Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `stem, stub'

Page in Trubačev: IV 69-70

Russian:

čéren (S. dial.) `molar' [m o]

Czech:

třeň `stem of a mushroom' [m jo];

čren (dial.) `jaw, jaw-bone' [m o]

Slovak:

čren `molar' [m o]

Polish:

trzon `stem of a mushroom, trunk' [m o]

Lithuanian:

kẽras `tree-stump, stub, bush, shrub' [m o] 4

Indo-European reconstruction: k(ʷ)er(H)-no- \{1\}

Page in Pokorny: 582

Other cognates:

OIr. cern `angle, corner' [f];

W cern `cheekbone, side of the head' [f]

Notes:

\{1\} If the Celtic forms are cognate, the root must be *ker-.