Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/palьcь

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 *pàlъ +‎ *-ьcь. Sometimes compared to Latin pollex.

Noun

*pàlьcь m

1. thumb

Declension

According to the Dybo’s system, the form belongs to the accent type A and to the accent curve variant A^a.

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàlьcь	*pàlьca	*pàlьci
genitive	*pàlьca	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcь
dative	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcema	*pàlьcēmъ
accusative	*pàlьcь	*pàlьca	*pàlьcę̇
instrumental	*pàlьcьmь, *pàlьcemь*	*pàlьcema	*pàlьcī
locative	*pàlьci	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcīxъ
vocative	*pàlьče	*pàlьca	*pàlьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: па́льць (pálĭcĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́лець (pálecʹ), па́лецъ (pálecʹ)
      • Belarusian: па́лец (páljec); па́ліц (pálic), па́ляц (páljac) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: па́лець (pálecʹ)
      • Ukrainian: па́лець (pálecʹ); па́лец (pálec) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: па́лець (pálecʹ), па́лецъ (pálec)
      • Russian: па́лец (pálec)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пальць (palĭcĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰰⰾⱐⱌⱐ (palĭcĭ)

  • Bulgarian: па́лец (pálec); па́лиц (pálic) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: палец (palec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏лац

    Latin script: pȁlac

  • Old Slovene: paliz, páłz
    • Slovene: pȃləc (tonal orthography); pálec, palac, pauc (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: palec
    • Czech: palec
  • Old Polish: palec
    • Polish: palec
    • Silesian: palec
  • Old Slovak: palec
    • Pannonian Rusyn: палєц (paljec)
    • Slovak: palec
  • Polabian: polăc
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pôlc
    • Slovincian: polc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: palc
    • Lower Sorbian: palc

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*palьcь / *palьci”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 63