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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pritъča
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *pritъknǫti (“to hit, to happen”), from *pri- + *tъknǫti.
Noun
*pritъča m
- occurrence, incident
- tale, story
Declension
Declension of *pritъča (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *pritъča | *pritъči | *pritъčę̇ |
Accusative | *pritъčǫ | *pritъči | *pritъčę̇ |
Genitive | *pritъčę̇ | *pritъču | *pritъčь |
Locative | *pritъči | *pritъču | *pritъčasъ, *pritъčaxъ* |
Dative | *pritъči | *pritъčama | *pritъčamъ |
Instrumental | *pritъčejǫ, *pritъčǫ** | *pritъčama | *pritъčami |
Vocative | *pritъče | *pritъči | *pritъčę̇ |
* -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: притъча (pritŭča)
- Belarusian: пры́тча (prýtča)
- Russian: при́тча (prítča)
- → Armenian: պրիտչա (pritčʿa)
- → Azerbaijani: pritça
- Ukrainian: при́тча (prýtča)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: притъча (pritŭča)
- Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⰹⱅⱏⱍⰰ (pritŭča)
- Bulgarian: при́тча (prítča)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: при̑ча
- Latin: prȋča
- Slovene: príča (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Polish: przytcza, przydcza
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “притча”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress