Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čerslo

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *keršlá. Equivalent to *čersti +‎ *-slo.

Cognate with Lithuanian ker̃slas (“cutter”) (kir̃sti, kertù), Old Prussian kersle (“pickaxe, axe with 2 blades”). Also compare Lithuanian kirkšnìs/kìrkšnis (“hip joint”), Latvian cir̂ksnis (“groin”) or Latvian šķerslis or Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍂𐌰 (hairþra), Old High German hërdar or Latin culter, cultrum.

For the meaning compare French taille (“waist”), Italian taglia (< Latin taliāre (“to cut”)).

*čerslò n [1][2]

1. plowshare

   Synonyms: *čьrtadlo, *lemešь, *ordlica, *ordlo

2. tan (tannic) (South and West Slavic)
3. (plural only) thighs (South and West Slavic)

   Synonyms: *lędvь, *bedro, *stegno

4. (plural only) loin, small of the back (East Slavic)

   Synonym: *lędvь

• *čersъ

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “чре́сла”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “че́ресло”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
• Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čerslo”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 04, Moscow: Nauka, page 74