Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tulъ

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *tula

Etymology

Akin to Sanskrit तूणः, तूणीर (tūṇaḥ, tūṇīra, “quiver”) and possibly Old High German dola (“pipe, conduit”).

Noun

*tulъ m

1. quiver (container for arrows)

Declension

Declension of *tulъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tulъ	*tula	*tuli
genitive	*tula	*tulu	*tulъ
dative	*tulu	*tuloma	*tulomъ
accusative	*tulъ	*tula	*tuly
instrumental	*tulъmь, *tulomь*	*tuloma	*tuly
locative	*tulě	*tulu	*tulěxъ
vocative	*tule	*tula	*tuli

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

nouns

• *tulěja
• *tulica

verb

• *tuliti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: тул (tul), ту́ло (túlo) (dated)
  • Ukrainian: ту́ла f (túla) (obsolete)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тоулъ (tulŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⱆⰾⱏ (tulŭ)

  • Bulgarian: тул (tul)
  • Macedonian: тул (tul)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ту̀љац

    Latin script: tùljac

  • Slovene: tȗl (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: túl
    • Czech: toul (obsolete)
      • ⇒ Czech: toulec
  • Old Polish: tuł
    • Polish: tuł (obsolete)
  • ⇒ Slovak: tulec

Further reading

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