Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pilę

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.

Onomatopoeic, from the nestling call *pi-pi + *-lę. Likely of Proto-Balto-Slavic origin, akin to Latvian pīle (“duck”), Lithuanian pỹlė (“duck”).

Compare also Proto-Slavic *pisklę (whence Polish pisklę) = *piskati (“to shriek”) +‎ *-lę.

*pilę n

1. chick, duckling, nestling (young bird)

• *pylę

• *piľukъ, *piľakъ (“bird of prey”) (literally: “chickener”)

• *pilica, *pilьcь, *piliťь (diminutives)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: пыля-пыля (pylja-pylja) (command for calling birds)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пи́ле (píle)
  • Macedonian: пиле (pile)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи̏ле

    Latin script: pȉle

  • ⇒ Slovene: pilič
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: pailă (“duck”)
  • Polish: pylę
  • Slovincian: pjilã
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pile
    • Upper Sorbian: pilo

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пы́ля”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пиле”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 235
• “pylė”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012