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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selo

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

Probably akin to Lithuanian selė́ti (“to scroll, to skid”), salà (“isle; countryside”), Latgalian sola (“rural area”) within Balto-Slavic; Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”), Latin solum (“base, foundation; sole of the foot”) in other Indo-European dialects. Further origin is left unspecified within the literature. Some of the proposed related terms have been tentatively linked to Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to drive, to meander”) (per Smoczyński, Būga).

Compare also Hittite [script needed] (šēli-, “granary”), Armenian շեղջ (šełǰ, “rick, stack”) (speculated to be an Anatolian borrowing).

Noun

*selò n[1][2][3]

  1. arable land, rural area, acre (agricultural administrative unit)
    Synonyms: (East Slavic) *dьrvьňa, (South Slavic) *zemľišče
  2. village (in East, South Slavic merged with *sēdlò (“settlement”)[3])
    Synonym: *vьsь

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • *sedlo (“settlement”) (homophonous with the current term in East, South Slavic), *sědlo (“residence, seat”)
  • *město (“suitable place, location”)
  • *gordъ (“fortified settlement”)

Derived terms

  • *seliti, *vъseliti (“to cultivate”)
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: въсел҄енаꙗ (vŭselʹenaja, “ecumene”) (calque of Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē, “cultivated land, ecumene”))
  • *selьskъ (“rural”)
  • *selьcь, *seľaninъ (“rural person, villager”)

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*selò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444: “n. o (b)”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “selo, G. sela”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 69, 151; PR 135; MP 25)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “selo”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “v slovan. jezikih pomešalo domnevno pslovan. *selȍ ‛polje’”
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