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

Alternative reconstructions

• *sěkyľь, *sikyľь

Etymology

By surface analysis, *sьk- +‎ *-yľь. See *sьcati (“to piss”). Roots *sьk- : *sěk- : *sik-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sik- : *saik- : *seik-, from Proto-Indo-European *sikʷ- : *soykʷ- : *seykʷ- (“to moisten”).

Noun

*sь̀kyľь m

1. (anatomy) clitoris
2. (anatomy) vulva

   Synonym: *pīzdà

Related terms

Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *seykʷ- (0 c, 10 e)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Middle Russian: сиколь (sikolʹ), сикуль (sikulʹ)
      • Russian: се́киль (sékilʹ), си́кель (síkelʹ); се́кель (sékelʹ), сикиль (sikilʹ), шикиль (šikilʹ) (dialectal)
    • Old Ruthenian:
      • Belarusian: се́кель (sjékjelʹ)
      • Ukrainian: си́кель (sýkelʹ), се́кель (sékelʹ), се́кіль (sékilʹ)
  • Old Novgorodian: сѣкꙑль (sěkylĭ)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “сикель”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 228
• Artsikhovsky, A. V., Yanin, V. L., Zaliznyak, A. A., et al., editor (1953–2015), Новгородские грамоты на бересте [Novgorod letters on birchbark] (in Russian), Moscow: “сик-, сък-, сьц- ‘mingere’ ― sik-, sʺk-, sʹc- ‘mingere’”