čerslò

čerslò Grammatical information: n. o Accent paradigm: b

Page in Trubačev: IV 74-75

Old Church Slavic:

črěsla `loins' [Nompn o]

Russian:

čeresló (dial.) `ploughshare' [n o];

čéresla (dial.) `waist, groins' [Nompn o]

Ukrainian:

čeresló `ploughshare' [n o]

Czech:

(s)tříslo `cortex, bark (used in tanning), planks, groin' [n o]

Slovak:

črieslo `lintel' [n o]

Polish:

trzosɫa (arch.) `loins, groin' [Nompn o];

trzósɫa (dial.) `loins, groin' [Nompn o]

Upper Sorbian:

črjósɫo `ploughshare' [n o]

Serbo-Croatian:

črijèslo `cortex, bark (used in tanning)' [n o]

Slovene:

črẹ́slọ `cortex, bark (used in tanning)' [n o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: kersló

Lithuanian:

ker̃slas `chisel, cutter' [m o]

Old Prussian:

kersle `axe with two blades'

Page in Pokorny: 941

Comments: Derivative of the root *(s)kert-. The suffix may be reconstructed as *-slom, but *-tlom is more attractive. It does not seem implausible that *kers-tlo- < *kert-tlo- became *kerslo- in Balto-Slavic.