Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrdlica

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 *gъrdlo +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*gъrdlica f

1. turtle dove (bird)

Inflection

Declension of *gъrdlica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gъrdlica	*gъrdlici	*gъrdlicę̇
genitive	*gъrdlicę̇	*gъrdlicu	*gъrdlicь
dative	*gъrdlici	*gъrdlicama	*gъrdlicamъ
accusative	*gъrdlicǫ	*gъrdlici	*gъrdlicę̇
instrumental	*gъrdlicejǫ, *gъrdlicǫ**	*gъrdlicama	*gъrdlicami
locative	*gъrdlici	*gъrdlicu	*gъrdlicasъ, *gъrdlicaxъ*
vocative	*gъrdlice	*gъrdlici	*gъrdlicę̇

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: гърлица (gŭrlica)
    • Russian: го́рлица (górlica)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: горліця (horlicja)
    • Ukrainian: горли́ця (horlýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: грълица (grŭlica)

  • Bulgarian: гъ́рлица (gǎ́rlica) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: грлица (grlica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гр̏лица

    Latin script: gȑlica

  • Slovene: gŕlica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hrdlice
  • Old Polish: gardlica, garlica
    • ⇒ Polish: garliczka
  • ⇒ Slovak: hrdlička

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: gerlice

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrdlica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 203
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “го́рлица”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress