Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьkyľь

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 early form Proto-Slavic *sьcati < *sьkati, *sikati (“to piss”) +‎ *-yľь. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sikʷ-éh₁-ti, from *seykʷ- (“to moisten”).

Noun

*sь̀kyľь m

(anatomy) clitoris
(anatomy) vulva
Synonym: *pīzdà

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сикуль (sikulĭ)[1]
  - Belarusian: се́кель (sjékjelʹ)
  - Ukrainian: си́кель (sýkelʹ), се́кель (sékelʹ), се́кіль (sékilʹ)
  - Middle Russian: сиколь (sikolʹ), сикуль (sikulʹ) (16-17ᵗʰ c.)
    - Russian: се́киль (sékilʹ)[2], си́кель (síkelʹ); се́кель (sékelʹ), сикиль (sikilʹ), шикиль (šikilʹ) (dialectal)
- Old Novgorodian: сѣкꙑль (sěkylĭ)[3]

References

Krysko, V. B.; Ladyzhensky, I. M. (2022), “Поп-сквернослов: Обсценные маргиналии в древнерусском евангелии [A ribald cleric: Obscene marginalia in an Old East Slavic Gospel]”, in Die Welt der Slaven‎ (in Russian), volume 67, issue 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, page 289: “сикулица”
Елистратов, В. С. (2002), “се́киль”, in Словарь русского арго (материалы 1980–1990 гг.) [Dictionary of the Russian Argo] (in Russian), digital edition, Грамота.ру
“Маренко… пеи пизда… и сѣкꙑле”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, (please provide a date or year) (document № 955)

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[1] Krysko, V. B.; Ladyzhensky, I. M. (2022), “Поп-сквернослов: Обсценные маргиналии в древнерусском евангелии [A ribald cleric: Obscene marginalia in an Old East Slavic Gospel]”, in Die Welt der Slaven‎ (in Russian), volume 67, issue 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, page 289: “сикулица”

[2] Елистратов, В. С. (2002), “се́киль”, in Словарь русского арго (материалы 1980–1990 гг.) [Dictionary of the Russian Argo] (in Russian), digital edition, Грамота.ру

[3] “Маренко… пеи пизда… и сѣкꙑле”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, (please provide a date or year) (document № 955)