Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rydlo

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 *ryti (“to dig, root”) +‎ *-dlo. Akin to *ryjь, whence Polish ryj.

Compare Latin rutrum (“shovel”), Latvian raûklis.

Noun

*rỳdlo n

1. spade
2. snout

Inflection

Declension of *rỳdlo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rỳdlo	*rỳdlě	*rỳdla
genitive	*rỳdla	*rỳdlu	*rỳdlъ
dative	*rỳdlu	*rỳdloma	*rỳdlomъ
accusative	*rỳdlo	*rỳdlě	*rỳdla
instrumental	*rỳdlъmь, *rỳdlomь*	*rỳdloma	*rỳdlȳ
locative	*rỳdlě	*rỳdlu	*rỳdlě̄xъ
vocative	*rỳdlo	*rỳdlě	*rỳdla

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *rỳti (“to dig”)
• *rъvàti (“to tear”)
• *rovъ (“ditch, pitch”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рꙑло (rylo)
    • Belarusian: ры́ла (rýla)
    • Russian: ры́ло (rýlo)
      • → Polish: ryło
    • Ukrainian: ри́ло (rýlo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: рꙑло (rylo)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: ри́ло (rílo)
  • Macedonian: рило (rilo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ри̏ло

    Latin script: rȉlo

  • Slovene: rílọ
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rydlo
  • Kashubian: ridel
  • Polish: rydel, rydla
  • Slovak: rydlo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “рыло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010), “рыло”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 293