Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selo

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

Probably akin to Lithuanian selė́ti (“to scroll, to skid”), salà (“isle; countryside”), Latgalian sola (“rural area”) within Balto-Slavic; Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”), Latin solum (“base, foundation; sole of the foot”) in other Indo-European dialects. Further origin is left unspecified within the literature. Some of the proposed related terms have been tentatively linked to Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to drive, to meander”) (per Smoczyński, Būga).

Compare also Hittite [script needed] (šēli-, “granary”), Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “rick, stack”) (speculated to be an Anatolian borrowing).

Noun

*selò n

1. arable land, rural area, acre (agricultural administrative unit)

   Synonyms: (East Slavic) *dьrvьňa, (South Slavic) *zemľišče

2. village (in East, South Slavic merged with *sēdlò (“settlement”))

   Synonym: *vьsь

Declension

Declension of *selò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*selò	*sèlě	*selà
genitive	*selà	*selù	*sèlъ
dative	*selù	*selòma	*selòmъ
accusative	*selò	*sèlě	*selà
instrumental	*selъ̀mь, *selòmь*	*selòma	*sèly
locative	*selě̀	*selù	*sèlěxъ
vocative	*selò	*sèlě	*selà

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

Coordinate terms

• *sedlo (“settlement”) (homophonous with the current term in East, South Slavic), *sědlo (“residence, seat”)
• *město (“suitable place, location”)
• *gordъ (“fortified settlement”)

Derived terms

• *seliti, *vъseliti (“to cultivate”)
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: въсел҄енаꙗ (vŭselʹenaja, “ecumene”) (calque of Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē, “cultivated land, ecumene”))
• *selьskъ (“rural”)
• *selьcь, *seľaninъ (“rural person, villager”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: село (selo)
    • Belarusian: сяло́ (sjaló)
    • Russian: село́ (seló)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: село́ (seló)
    • Ukrainian: село́ (seló)
  • Old Novgorodian: село (selo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: село (selo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰵⰾⱁ (selo)

  • Bulgarian: се́ло (sélo); село́ (seló) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: село (selo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сѐло

    Latin script: sèlo

    • Montenegrin (Piperi): sȅło
  • Slovene: sélo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: selo
  • Polish: sioło (poetic)

Further reading

• Любовь Куркина (2006) “Славянские термины земледелия в контексте индоевропейских связей”, in Studia etymologica Brunesia, volume 3, pages 152-162
• А. К. Шапошников (2016) “Материалы к этимологическому словарю славянских древностей Греции II”, in Труды Института русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова, number 8, Moscow, →ISSN, page 176
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “село”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “село”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 152
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “село”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 602
• “sala”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012