Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cica

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

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

*cica f

1. Alternative form of *cicь (“breast/nipple”)

Declension

Declension of *cica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*cica	*cici	*cicę̇
genitive	*cicę̇	*cicu	*cicь
dative	*cici	*cicama	*cicamъ
accusative	*cicǫ	*cici	*cicę̇
instrumental	*cicejǫ, *cicǫ**	*cicama	*cicami
locative	*cici	*cicu	*cicasъ, *cicaxъ*
vocative	*cice	*cici	*cicę̇

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: цы́ца (cýca) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: ци́ця (cýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ци́ца (cíca)
  • Macedonian: цица (cica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ци̏ца

    Latin script: cȉca

• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: cica (dialectal)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “циця”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 255