česmina

• čèsmin, čèsmrka, čèsvina
• ceśmína, česmína (Čakavian)

Allegedly a Proto-Slavic *česmìnъ, *česmìna in a collective-singulative relation from *česati (“to scratch”). While Old Slovenian чесмина (česmina) meant the holm oak and Old Church Slavonic чрѣсмина (črěsmina) also meant the holm oak, looking on the red berries of the holly and barberry denoted by the word one must warn that this word not be confused with the forms of Proto-Slavic *čèršьnja (“sweet cherry”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃěsmina/

čèsmina f (Cyrillic spelling чѐсмина)

1. common holly, Ilex aquifolium
2. common barberry, Berberis vulgaris
3. holm oak, Quercus ilex
4. Macedonian oak, Quercus macedonica syn. Quercus trojana

• Snoj, Marko (2016), “češmȋn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, pages 114–115
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чесмина”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress
• Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 130, Copy 2, Copy 3
• Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 139, Copy 2, Copy 3

• česmȋn

See Serbo-Croatian čèsmina.

česmína f (genitive česmíne, nominative plural česmíne)

1. common holly, Ilex aquifolium
2. common barberry, Berberis vulgaris