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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrdlica
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *gъrdlo + *-ica.
Noun
*gъrdlica f
- turtle dove (bird)
Inflection
Declension of *gъrdlica (soft a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *gъrdlica | *gъrdlici | *gъrdlicę̇ |
| Accusative | *gъrdlicǫ | *gъrdlici | *gъrdlicę̇ |
| Genitive | *gъrdlicę̇ | *gъrdlicu | *gъrdlicь |
| Locative | *gъrdlici | *gъrdlicu | *gъrdlicasъ, *gъrdlicaxъ* |
| Dative | *gъrdlici | *gъrdlicama | *gъrdlicamъ |
| Instrumental | *gъrdlicejǫ, *gъrdlicǫ** | *gъrdlicama | *gъrdlicami |
| Vocative | *gъrdlice | *gъrdlici | *gъrdlicę̇ |
* -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).
** 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 East Slavic: гърлица (gŭrlica)
- Russian: го́рлица (górlica)
- Rusyn: горліця (horlicja)
- Ukrainian: горли́ця (horlýcja)
- Old East Slavic: гърлица (gŭrlica)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: грълица (grŭlica)
- Bulgarian: гъ́рлица (gǎ́rlica) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: грлица (grlica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гр̏лица
- Latin: gȑlica
- Slovene: gŕlica (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hrdlice
- Old Polish: gardlica, garlica
- ⇒ Polish: garliczka
- ⇒ Slovak: hrdlička
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrdlica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 203
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “го́рлица”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress