Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čajica

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 *čàja +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*čàjica f

1. gull, lapwing

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čajica	*čajici	*čajicę̇
genitive	*čajicę̇	*čajicu	*čajicь
dative	*čajicī	*čajicama	*čajicāmъ
accusative	*čajicǫ	*čajici	*čajicę̇
instrumental	*čajicējǫ, *čajicǭ*	*čajicama	*čajicāmī
locative	*čajicī	*čajicu	*čajicāsъ
vocative	*čajice	*čajici	*čajicę̇

^* 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ча́ица (čáica)
    • Russian: ча́йца (čájca) ^{(Arkhangelsk)}, це́ица (céica) ^(Olonets), ча́ица (čáica, “lapwing”) ^(Smolensk)
  • The Tale of Igor’s Campaign: ча́ицами (čáicami)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: čájca (tonal orthography) ^(dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “čajica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 11