Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čaša

Probably from the same root as in *česati (“to scratch, comb”). Akin to Old Prussian kiosi (“cup”).

The Slavic term also resembles Proto-Indo-Iranian *čaš- (“to feed, to taste”) (cf Persian چشیدن‎ (češidan, “to taste”), Sanskrit चष् (caṣ, “to eat”)) which gave Sanskrit चषक (caṣaka, “cup”) and Old Armenian ճաշակ (čašak, “drinking vessel”). This similarity suggests a possible borrowing from Scythian.

*čàša f[1]

1. bowl, cup, mug (vessel made out of hollowed wood)

   Synonym: *čara

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• *čašьka (“small cup”) (diminutive)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чаша (čaša)
    • Belarusian: ча́ша (čáša)
    • Russian: ча́ша (čáša)
    • Ukrainian: чаша (čaša)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: чаша (čaša)

    Glagolitic script: ⱍⰰⱎⰰ (čaša)

  • Bulgarian: ча́ша (čáša)
  • Macedonian: чаша (čaša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ча̏ша

    Latin script: čȁša

  • Slovene: čáša (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: coso
  • Old Czech: čiešě
    • Czech: číše
  • Old Polish: czasza
    • Polish: czasza
  • Slovak: čaša

• → Romanian: ceașcă (diminutive)
• → Hungarian: csésze

• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “*čaša”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 117
• Gluhak, Alemko (1993), “Proto-Slavic/čaša”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 173
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čaša”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 30
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чаша”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress