Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sudlica

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 Proto-Indo-European *-dlo + *-ica. It may be cognate with Sanskrit शूल (śūla), शूला (śūlā, “iron spike”), शूक (śūka, “bristle, spike”), Avestan 𐬯𐬏𐬐𐬁‎ (sūkā).This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

*sudlica f

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Declension

Declension of *sudlica (soft a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*sudlica	*sudlici	*sudlicę̇
Accusative	*sudlicǫ	*sudlici	*sudlicę̇
Genitive	*sudlicę̇	*sudlicu	*sudlicь
Locative	*sudlici	*sudlicu	sudlicasъ, sudlicaxъ^*
Dative	*sudlici	*sudlicama	*sudlicamъ
Instrumental	sudlicejǫ, sudlicǫ^**	*sudlicama	*sudlicami
Vocative	*sudlice	*sudlici	*sudlicę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

*sovati (“to shove”)
*sunǫti (“to shove, thrust”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сулица (sulica)
  - Belarusian: су́лица (súlica)
  - Russian: су́лица (súlica)
  - Ukrainian: сули́ця (sulýcja)
  - →? Old Polish: sulica
    - Polish: sulica
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Serbian Church Slavonic сулица (sulica)
- Slovene: súlica (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: sudlice
- Slovak: sudlica

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: suliță

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сулица”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress