Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dojidlica

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 *dojidlo +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*dojidlica f

1. nurse, nursing animal

Inflection

Declension of *dojidlica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dojidlica	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇
genitive	*dojidlicę̇	*dojidlicu	*dojidlicь
dative	*dojidlici	*dojidlicama	*dojidlicamъ
accusative	*dojidlicǫ	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇
instrumental	*dojidlicejǫ, *dojidlicǫ**	*dojidlicama	*dojidlicami
locative	*dojidlici	*dojidlicu	*dojidlicasъ, *dojidlicaxъ*
vocative	*dojidlice	*dojidlici	*dojidlicę̇

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: дои́лица (doʲílica)
    • Ukrainian: дої́лиця (dojílycja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: доилиць (doilicĭ, “suckling ewes”) Gpl.

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⰻⰾⰻⱌⱐ (doilicĭ)

    • Russian Church Slavonic: доилица (doilica, “nurse, mich cow”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified script: [Term?] (“nurse, nursing mother”)

    Latin script: dòjilica

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dojidlica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 110