Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dojidlica

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *dojidlo +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*dojidlica f

nurse, nursing animal

Inflection

Declension of *dojidlica (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dojidlica	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇
genitive	*dojidlicę̇	*dojidlicu	*dojidlicь
dative	*dojidlici	*dojidlicama	*dojidlicamъ
accusative	*dojidlicǫ	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇
instrumental	dojidlicejǫ, dojidlicǫ^**	*dojidlicama	*dojidlicami
locative	*dojidlici	*dojidlicu	dojidlicasъ, dojidlicaxъ^*
vocative	*dojidlice	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old Ruthenian: дои́лица (doílica)
  - Ukrainian: дої́лиця (dojílycja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: доилиць (doilicĭ, “suckling ewes”) Gpl.
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⰻⰾⰻⱌⱐ (doilicĭ)
  - Russian Church Slavonic: доилица (doilica, “nurse, mich cow”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  unspecified script: [Term?] (“nurse, nursing mother”)
  
  Latin script: dòjilica

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dojidlica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 110