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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žędlo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From an earlier *želdlo, formed as *želti (“to bite, to tingle”) + *-dlo, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *geldla, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-dʰlo-m, from *gʷelH- (“to quell, to stroke”). The nasalization is secondary, result of disimilation *-ldl- > *-ndl- (a similar development occurred in *dętelъ (“woodpecker”), from an earlier *delb-telъ).
Akin to Lithuanian geluonìs (“stinger”), Latvian dzelonis (“stinger”), and Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “arrow, needle”).
Noun
*žędlo n[1][2]
- stinger
Alternative forms
- *žilo (confused as a derivative of the intensive counterpart *ziliti of *želti)
Declension
Declension of *žędlo (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *žędlo | *žędlě | *žędla |
Accusative | *žędlo | *žędlě | *žędla |
Genitive | *žędla | *žędlu | *žędlъ |
Locative | *žędlě | *žędlu | *žędlěxъ |
Dative | *žędlu | *žędloma | *žędlomъ |
Instrumental | *žędlъmь, *žędlomь* | *žędloma | *žędly |
Vocative | *žędlo | *žędlě | *žędla |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷelH- (0 c, 7 e)
Derived terms
- *žędliti (“to sting”)
- *žędlь (“accute pain”) (later amalgamated with *žalь (“grief, sorrow”))
- *žędlъka (“nettles”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: жало́ (žaló)
- Old Ruthenian: жало́ (žaló)
- Belarusian: джа́ла (džála); жа́ла (žála) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: жало́ (žaló); жило́ (žyló) (dialectal)
- Russian: жа́ло (žálo)
- Old Ruthenian: жало́ (žaló)
- Old Novgorodian: жaгло (žaglo)
- Old East Slavic: жало́ (žaló)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: жѧло (žęlo), жѩло (žjęlo)
- Bulgarian: жило (žilo); жело (želo) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: жило (žilo)
- Serbo-Croatian::
- Cyrillic: жа́лац
- Latin: žálac
- Slovene: žélo (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Kashubian: żãdło, żãgło
- Polabian: zǫdlü
- Polish: żądło
- Old Czech: *žadlo, žahadlo, žěhadlo[3]
- Czech: žihadlo, žádło (dialectal)[3]
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жало”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “жело”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 533
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “жило”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 546
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “žędlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 560
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “žélo”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si
- "žihadlo" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →ISBN, page 819.