Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pritъča

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 *pritъknǫti (“to hit, to happen”), from *pri- + *tъknǫti.

Noun

*pritъča m

1. occurrence, incident
2. tale, story

Declension

Declension of *pritъča (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pritъča	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇
genitive	*pritъčę̇	*pritъču	*pritъčь
dative	*pritъči	*pritъčama	*pritъčamъ
accusative	*pritъčǫ	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇
instrumental	*pritъčejǫ, *pritъčǫ**	*pritъčama	*pritъčami
locative	*pritъči	*pritъču	*pritъčasъ, *pritъčaxъ*
vocative	*pritъče	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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: притъча (pritŭča)
  • Belarusian: пры́тча (prýtča)
  • Russian: при́тча (prítča)
    • → Armenian: պրիտչա (pritčʻa)
    • → Azerbaijani: pritça
  • Ukrainian: при́тча (prýtča)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: притъча (pritŭča)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⰹⱅⱏⱍⰰ (pritŭča)

  • Bulgarian: при́тча (prítča)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: при̑ча

    Latin script: prȋča

  • Slovene: príča (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: przytcza

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “притча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress