Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pъtica
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *pъta + *-ica, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *put-. Cognate with Latvian putns (“bird”) (see there for more theories and potential cognates),[1] Lithuanian putýtis (“little bird”), Lithuanian pučiùtė (“chicken”). Perhaps also more distantly cognate with Latin putila (“chick, baby bird”) and (per Vasmer) various words referring to children, e.g. Latin putus, putillus (“child”), Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, “child, son”), Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀 (puθra, “child, son”), Paelignian puclo- (“child”). Chernykh adds Latin pullus (“chicken”) < Proto-Indo-European *put-s-lo-.
Noun
*pъtìca f[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *pъtìca | *pъtìci | *pъtìcę̇ |
| genitive | *pъtìcę̇ | *pъtìcu | *pъtìcь |
| dative | *pъtìcī | *pъtìcama | *pъtìcāmъ |
| accusative | *pъtìcǫ | *pъtìci | *pъtìcę̇ |
| instrumental | *pъtìcējǫ, *pъtìcǭ* | *pъtìcama | *pъtìcāmī |
| locative | *pъtìcī | *pъtìcu | *pъtìcāsъ |
| vocative | *pъtìce | *pъtìci | *pъtìcę̇ |
* 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).
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пти́ца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “пти́ца”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 79
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pъtìca”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425: “f. jā (a) ‘bird’”