Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/starica

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Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *starъ +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*starica f

old woman

Inflection

Declension of *starica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*starica	*starici	*staricę̇
genitive	*staricę̇	*staricu	*staricь
dative	*starici	*staricama	*staricamъ
accusative	*staricǫ	*starici	*staricę̇
instrumental	staricejǫ, staricǫ^**	*staricama	*staricami
locative	*starici	*staricu	staricasъ, staricaxъ^*
vocative	*starice	*starici	*staricę̇

^* -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:
- Russian: ста́рица (stárica)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: стари́ца (staríca)
- Macedonian: старица (starica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ста̏рица
  
  Latin script: stȁrica
- Slovene: staríca (tonal orthography)