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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
*jьgo (“yoke”) + *-ъla. Compare Latin iugulum.
Noun
*jьgъlà f[1][2]
- needle
- a needle for fastening, as a hairpin or as a part of a tack or yoke of a beast
- a sewing needle or knitting needle
- a pointed leaf of a conifer
Inflection
Declension of
*jьgъlà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
* -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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: игла (igla)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jьgъla”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 213
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “игла́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*jьgъlà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210: “f. ā (c) ‘needle’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “jьgъla jьgъly”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c nål (PR 138)”