Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/opica

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 *opъ +‎ *-ica, borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *apō (“ape, monkey”).

Noun

*opica m

1. ape, monkey

Declension

Declension of *opica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*opica	*opici	*opicę̇
genitive	*opicę̇	*opicu	*opicь
dative	*opici	*opicama	*opicamъ
accusative	*opicǫ	*opici	*opicę̇
instrumental	*opicejǫ, *opicǫ**	*opicama	*opicami
locative	*opici	*opicu	*opicasъ, *opicaxъ*
vocative	*opice	*opici	*opicę̇

^* -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:
  • Russian: о́пица (ópica)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: опица (opica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: опица

    Latin script: òpica

  • Slovene: ọ̑pica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: opicě
    • Czech: opice
      • Moravian (Mistřice): opíca
  • Polabian: opó
  • Old Polish: opica
  • Slovak: opica
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wopica

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “опица”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress