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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pъtica

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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

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Etymology

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From *pъta +‎ *-ica, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *put-. Cognate with Latvian putns (bird), Lithuanian putýtis (little bird), Lithuanian pučiùtė (chicken). More distantly cognate with Latin putila (chick, baby bird) and (per Vasmer) various words referring to children, e.g. Latin putus, putillus (child), Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, child, son), Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀 (puθra, child, son), Paelignian puclo- (child). Chernykh adds Latin pullus (chicken) < Proto-Indo-European *put-s-lo-.

Noun

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*pъtìca f[1]

  1. bird

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пти́ца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пти́ца”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 79

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pъtìca”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425:f. jā (a) ‘bird’