Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sinica

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 *siňь +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*sinìca f

1. titmouse

   Synonyms: *sypъka, *sykora

2. (West Slavic) blue-green algae, cyanobacteria

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sinìca	*sinìci	*sinìcę̇
genitive	*sinìcę̇	*sinìcu	*sinìcь
dative	*sinìcī	*sinìcama	*sinìcāmъ
accusative	*sinìcǫ	*sinìci	*sinìcę̇
instrumental	*sinìcējǫ, *sinìcǭ*	*sinìcama	*sinìcāmī
locative	*sinìcī	*sinìcu	*sinìcāsъ
vocative	*sinìce	*sinìci	*sinìcę̇

^* 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: синица (sinica)
    • Belarusian: сініца (sinica)
    • Russian: сини́ца (siníca)
    • Ukrainian: сини́ця (synýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: синигер (siniger) (related)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сјѐница

    Latin script: sjènica

  • Slovene: siníca (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: sinice
  • Polish: sinica

Further reading

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