Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ulica

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 *ula +‎ *-ica, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *aul-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlós.

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian aulis (“shin”).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós, “pipe, flute”), αὐλών (aulṓn, “hollow, channel, strait”); Low German ōl, аul (Westphalian); Old Armenian ուղի (ułi, “road, way, route; journey; passage”).

It may be a cognate of Latvian iela and Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ).

Noun

*ùlica f

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*úlica	*ùlici	*ùlicę̇
genitive	*ùlicę̇	*ùlicu	*ùlicь
dative	*ùlicī	*ùlicama	*ùlicāmъ
accusative	*ùlicǫ	*ùlici	*ùlicę̇
instrumental	ùlicējǫ, ùlicǭ^*	*ùlicama	*ùlicāmī
locative	*ùlicī	*ùlicu	*ùlicāsъ
vocative	*ùlice	*ùlici	*ùlicę̇

^* 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).

Related terms

*ulьjь (“(bee)hive”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: улица (ulica)
  - Belarusian: ву́ліца (vúlica)
  - Russian: у́лица (úlica)
    - → Armenian: ուլից (ulicʻ)
    - → Estonian: uulits
    - → Ingrian: uulitsa
    - → Korean: 울리짜 (ullijja)
    - → Udmurt: ульча (uľća)
    - → Võro: huulits
    - → Yakut: уулусса (uulussa)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: у́ліця (úlicja), у́лиця (úlycja)
  - Ukrainian: у́лиця (úlycja), ву́лиця (vúlycja)
  - → Lithuanian: ulyčia, ūlyčia
  - → Samogitian: ulīčė
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: оулица (ulica)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱆⰾⰹⱌⰰ (ulica)
- Bulgarian: у́лица (úlica)
- Macedonian: улица (ulica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: у̏лица
  
  Latin script: ȕlica
- Slovene: úlica (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: ulicě
  - Czech: ulice
- Old Polish: ulica
  - Polish: ulica
  - Silesian: ulica
- Old Slovak: ulica
  - Pannonian Rusyn: улїца (uljica)
  - Slovak: ulica
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: ùlëca
  - Slovincian: wùlëca
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: wulica
  - Lower Sorbian: wulica

Non-Slavic languages:
- → Aromanian: ulitsã
- → Hungarian: utca
- → Romanian: uliță

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*úlica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 508
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “улица”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Franz Miklosich (1862–1865) “оулица”, in Lexicon Palaeoslovenico-Graeco-Latinum emendatum auctum, Vienna: Guilelmus Braumueller, page 1049
Dočkalová, Lenka, Blažek, Václav (2011) “On Indo-European roads”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎^[1], volume 39, number 3/4, page 305 of 299–341