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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sinica
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *siňь + *-ica.
Noun
*sinìca f[1]
- titmouse
- Synonyms: *sypъka, *sykora
Declension
Declension of *sinìca (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *sinìca | *sinìci | *sinìcę̇ |
| Accusative | *sinìcǫ | *sinìci | *sinìcę̇ |
| Genitive | *sinìcę̇ | *sinìcu | *sinìcь |
| Locative | *sinìcī | *sinìcu | *sinìcāsъ |
| Dative | *sinìcī | *sinìcama | *sinìcāmъ |
| Instrumental | *sinìcējǫ, *sinìcǭ* | *sinìcama | *sinìcāmī |
| Vocative | *sinìce | *sinìci | *sinìcę̇ |
* 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: синица (sinica)
- Belarusian: сініца (sinica)
- Russian: сини́ца (siníca)
- Ukrainian: сини́ця (synýcja)
- Old East Slavic: синица (sinica)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: синигер (siniger) (related)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сјѐница
- Latin: sjènica
- Slovene: siníca (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: sinice
- Polish: sinica
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сини́ца”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “siníca”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*sini̋ca”