Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šulo

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

Cognate with Lithuanian šùlas (“post, pole, stave”), Old Prussian sulis (“stave”), and possibly Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood, beam”)

Noun

*šulo n

1. post, pole

Declension

Declension of *šulo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*šulo	*šulě	*šula
genitive	*šula	*šulu	*šulъ
dative	*šulu	*šuloma	*šulomъ
accusative	*šulo	*šulě	*šula
instrumental	*šulъmь, *šulomь*	*šuloma	*šuly
locative	*šulě	*šulu	*šulěxъ
vocative	*šulo	*šulě	*šula

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: шу́ла f (šúla)
  • Russian: шу́ло n (šúlo, “fence post”) (Western, dialectal), шу́ла f (šúla, “fence post”) (Smolensk)
  • Ukrainian: шу́ла f (šúla, “fence post”)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: шу̑љ m (“block”)

    Latin script: shȗlj m

  • Slovene: šulj m (“sawn-off trunk, block”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: szuło n (“wooden pole”)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шу́ло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress