Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děvica

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děvica

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 *děva +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*děvìca f[1]

1. girl, maiden

Inflection

Declension of *děvìca (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*děvìca	*děvìci	*děvìcę̇
Accusative	*děvìcǫ	*děvìci	*děvìcę̇
Genitive	*děvìcę̇	*děvìcu	*děvìcь
Locative	*děvìcī	*děvìcu	*děvìcāsъ
Dative	*děvìcī	*děvìcama	*děvìcāmъ
Instrumental	*děvìcējǫ, *děvìcǭ*	*děvìcama	*děvìcāmī
Vocative	*děvìce	*děvìci	*děvìcę̇

^* 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).

Derived terms

• *děvičь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дѣви́ца (děvíca), диви́ца (divíca)
    • Belarusian: дзяві́ца (dzjavíca)
    • Russian: деви́ца (devíca), де́вица (dévica) (folklore, poetic)
    • Ukrainian: діви́ця (divýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: дѣвица (děvica)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⱑⰲⰹⱌⰰ (děvica)

  • Bulgarian: деви́ца (devíca)
  • Macedonian: де́вица (dévica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: дѐвица, дјѐвица

    Latin: dèvica, djèvica, divica

  • Slovene: devíca (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: děvicě
    • Czech: děvice
  • Kashubian: dzéwica
  • Polish: dziewica
  • Slovak: devica
  • Slovincian: ʒìe̯vjică

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*děvica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 19

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děvìca”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105: “f. ā (a) ‘maiden, girl’”