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

1. passage
2. street

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
      • → Udmurt: ульча (uľća)
      • → Võro: huulits
      • → Yakut: уулусса (uulussa)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: у́ліця (úlicja), у́лиця (úlycja)
    • Ukrainian: у́лиця (úlycja), ву́лиця (vúlycja)
• 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
    • Masurian: ûlica
    • Polish: ulica
    • Silesian: ulica
  • Slovak: ulica
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: ùlëca
    • Slovincian: wùlëca
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wulica
    • Lower Sorbian: wulica

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

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*úlica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, 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