Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/palьcь

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 *pàlъ +‎ *-ьcь. Sometimes compared to Latin pollex.

Noun

*pàlьcь m

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Declension

According to the Dybo’s system, the form belongs to the accent type A and to the accent curve variant A^a.

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàlьcь	*pàlьca	*pàlьci
genitive	*pàlьca	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcь
dative	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcema	*pàlьcēmъ
accusative	*pàlьcь	*pàlьca	*pàlьcę̇
instrumental	pàlьcьmь, pàlьcemь^*	*pàlьcema	*pàlьcī
locative	*pàlьci	*pàlьcu	*pàlьcīxъ
vocative	*pàlьče	*pàlьca	*pàlьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: па́льць (pálĭcĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: па́лець (pálecʹ), па́лецъ (pálecʹ)
    - Belarusian: па́лец (páljec); па́ліц (pálic), па́ляц (páljac) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: па́лець (pálecʹ)
    - Ukrainian: па́лець (pálecʹ); па́лец (pálec) (dialectal)
  - Middle Russian: па́лець (pálecʹ), па́лецъ (pálec)
    - Russian: па́лец (pálec)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: пальць (palĭcĭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⰰⰾⱐⱌⱐ (palĭcĭ)
- Bulgarian: па́лец (pálec); па́лиц (pálic) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: палец (palec)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: па̏лац
  
  Latin script: pȁlac
- Old Slovene: paliz, páłz
  - Slovene: pȃləc (tonal orthography); pálec, palac, pauc (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: palec
  - Czech: palec
- Old Polish: palec
  - Polish: palec
  - Silesian: palec
- Old Slovak: palec
  - Slovak: palec
- Polabian: polăc
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: pôlc
  - Slovincian: polc
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: palc
  - Lower Sorbian: palc