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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tylъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Formed as *tyti (“to fatten”) + *-lъ, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell, to be strong”). Akin to Lithuanian tū́las (“several”), Old Prussian tūlan (“much”) and possibly Sanskrit तूल (tūla, “tuft of grass or reeds”), Ancient Greek τῡ́λη (tū́lē, “hump, bulge”).
Noun
*tỳlъ m[1][2]
- back of the neck, nape
Alternative forms
- *tylo n
Inflection
Declension of *tylъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *tylъ | *tỳla | *tỳli |
| Accusative | *tylъ | *tỳla | *tỳly |
| Genitive | *tỳla | *tỳlu | *tỳlъ |
| Locative | *tỳlě | *tỳlu | *tỳlě̄xъ |
| Dative | *tỳlu | *tỳloma | *tỳlomъ |
| Instrumental | *tỳlъmь, *tỳlomь* | *tỳloma | *tỳlȳ |
| Vocative | *tỳle | *tỳla | *tỳli |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *tylьnъ
- *tylovъ
Related terms
- *toviti (“to get fat”)
- *tysǫti (“thousand”)
- *tukъ (“fat”)
- *tučьnъ (“fat, lush”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тылъ (tylŭ)
- Russian: тыл (tyl)
- Ukrainian: тил (tyl)
- Old East Slavic: тылъ (tylŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: тылъ (tylŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱅⱏⰹⰾⱏ (tylŭ)
- Bulgarian: ти́л (tíl)
- Macedonian: тил (til)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- ⇒ Cyrillic: за̀тиљак, по̀тиљак
- ⇒ Latin: zàtiljak, pòtiljak
- Slovene: tȋl (obsolete)
- ⇒ Slovene: tȋlnik (“cervix”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: týl
- Czech: týl
- Old Polish: tył
- Polish: tył
- Slovak: tylo n
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: tуɫ
- Lower Sorbian: tуɫ, tуɫo n
- Old Czech: týl
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тыл”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “tȋlnik”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tỳlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 503: “m. o (a) ‘back of the neck’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “tylъ tyla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (sek. tylo) (NA 115, 133, 143; SA 23); c (RPT 98) back of the head”