Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kaša

Etymology
From an earlier, traditionally posited to be related to 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬 (first proposed by Zubatý). Trubačev argues that the modern attested meaning developed from initial “ground cereal”. Compare analogous developments in (from ), 🇨🇬 (from ).

Further origin disputed:
 * An old interpretation due to Potebnja (effectively) suggests origin from (whence 🇨🇬, ), which is formally incompatable with the accentology of . Rejected by Vasmer, however, compare  (< ).
 * Iljinsky alternatively suggests possible relation to 🇨🇬, region. (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬),  ultimately from . Semantic aspect doubted by Trubačev.
 * Būga compares 🇨🇬 with (modern ) but Endzelīns rejects it, claiming instead kinship of the Latvian adjective to 🇨🇬.

In the past, comparison had been further drawn to, , both refuted by Vasmer.

Noun

 * 1)  ground cereal
 * 2)  porridge, gruel, mush
 * 1)  porridge, gruel, mush

Descendants

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