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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selo
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably akin to Lithuanian selė́ti (“to scroll, to skid”), salà (“isle; countryside”), Latgalian sola (“rural area”) within Balto-Slavic; Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”), Latin solum (“base, foundation; sole of the foot”) in other Indo-European dialects. Further origin is left unspecified within the literature. Some of the proposed related terms have been tentatively linked to Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to drive, to meander”) (per Smoczyński, Būga).
Compare also Hittite [script needed] (šēli-, “granary”), Armenian շեղջ (šełǰ, “rick, stack”) (speculated to be an Anatolian borrowing).
Noun
*selò n[1][2][3]
- arable land, rural area, acre (agricultural administrative unit)
- Synonyms: (East Slavic) *dьrvьňa, (South Slavic) *zemľišče
- village (in East, South Slavic merged with *sēdlò (“settlement”)[3])
- Synonym: *vьsь
Declension
Declension of *selò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *selò | *sèlě | *selà |
| Accusative | *selò | *sèlě | *selà |
| Genitive | *selà | *selù | *sèlъ |
| Locative | *selě̀ | *selù | *sèlěxъ |
| Dative | *selù | *selòma | *selòmъ |
| Instrumental | *selъ̀mь, *selòmь* | *selòma | *sèly |
| Vocative | *selò | *sèlě | *selà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Coordinate terms
- *sedlo (“settlement”) (homophonous with the current term in East, South Slavic), *sědlo (“residence, seat”)
- *město (“suitable place, location”)
- *gordъ (“fortified settlement”)
Derived terms
- *seliti, *vъseliti (“to cultivate”)
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: въсел҄енаꙗ (vŭselʹenaja, “ecumene”) (calque of Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē, “cultivated land, ecumene”))
- *selьskъ (“rural”)
- *selьcь, *seľaninъ (“rural person, villager”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: село (selo)
- Belarusian: сяло́ (sjaló)
- Russian: село́ (seló)
- Rusyn: село́ (seló)
- Ukrainian: село́ (seló)
- Old East Slavic: село (selo)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: село (selo)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⰵⰾⱁ (selo)
- Bulgarian: се́ло (sélo); село́ (seló) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: село (selo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сѐло
- Latin: sèlo
- Montenegrin (Piperi): sȅło
- Slovene: sélo (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: selo
- Polish: sioło (poetic)
Further reading
- Любовь Куркина (2006), “Славянские термины земледелия в контексте индоевропейских связей”, in Studia etymologica Brunesia, volume 3, pages 152-162
- А. К. Шапошников (2016), “Материалы к этимологическому словарю славянских древностей Греции II”, in Труды Института русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова, issue 8, Moscow, ISSN 2311-150X, page 176
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “село”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “село”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 152
- Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (2002), “село”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 602
- “sala”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*selò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444: “n. o (b)”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “selo, G. sela”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 69, 151; PR 135; MP 25)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “selo”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “v slovan. jezikih pomešalo domnevno pslovan. *selȍ ‛polje’”