Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skala

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.

Substantivized collective noun from *skàliti (“to chop”) +‎ *-а. Perhaps, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skalā́ˀ, from a long o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut, to chop”), akin to Lithuanian skalà (“chip, sliver”), Proto-Germanic *skalō (“lump, ball”).

*skàla f

1. (perhaps originally) crack, cleft → sliver, fragment, wedge
2. rock

• *skaľa (yā-stem)

• *skalica, *skalъka (diminutive)
• *skalařь, *skalakъ (“stone worker/miner”)
• *skalistъ (“rocky”)
• *skalьnъ (“stony, made of rock”)

• *skaliti (“to chop”)
• *skolьka (“shell; mussel”)
• *ščelь (“crack, fissure”)
  • *ščelina (“cleft, aperture”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: скала́ (skalá)
  • Ukrainian: скала́ (skalá), ска́ля (skálja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: скала (skala)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰽⰰⰾⰰ (skala)

  • Bulgarian: скала́ (skalá)
  • Macedonian: скала (skala) (dated, dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ска̏ла

    Latin script: skȁla

  • Slovene: skála
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: skála
    • Czech: skála
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): škála
  • Old Polish: skała
    • Polish: skała
  • Slovak: skala
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: skała

    Lower Sorbian: skała

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скала”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “скала”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 718
• скала in Горох.ua