Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫdica

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

Originally a diminutive form of *ǫ̀da (“fishing rod”) +‎ *-ica (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ǫ̀dica f

1. diminutive of *ǫ̀da (“fishing rod”)

Declension

Declension of *ǫdica (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫdica	*ǫdici	*ǫdicę̇
genitive	*ǫdicę̇	*ǫdicu	*ǫdicь
dative	*ǫdicī	*ǫdicama	*ǫdicāmъ
accusative	*ǫdicǫ	*ǫdici	*ǫdicę̇
instrumental	*ǫdicējǫ, *ǫdicǭ*	*ǫdicama	*ǫdicāmī
locative	*ǫdicī	*ǫdicu	*ǫdicāsъ
vocative	*ǫdice	*ǫdici	*ǫdicę̇

^* 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).

Related terms

• *ǫdъka (diminutive)
• *ǫdidlo (“staff of fishing rod”), *ǫdidlišče (“handle of fishing rod”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: у́дица (údica)
    • Russian: у́дица (údica) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: ву́диця (vúdycja) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ѫдица (ǫdica)

    Glagolitic script: ⱘⰴⰹⱌⰰ (ǫdica)

    • Bulgarian: въ́дица (vǎ́dica), въ́нджица (vǎ́ndžica) (dialectal)
    • → Romanian: undiță
  • Macedonian: јадица (jadica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̏дица

    Latin script: ȕdica

    • Chakavian (Vrgada, Kukljica, Grobnik): ȕdica
  • Slovene: ódica, vódica; vòdica (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: udicě
    • Czech: udice
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): hudice
  • Old Polish: wędzica
  • Old Slovak: udica
    • Slovak: udica

Further reading

• Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*ǫdica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 12
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “въдица”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 201