Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tuliti

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.

Probably from the l-participle *tulъ +‎ *-iti of otherwise obsolete Proto-Balto-Slavic *táuˀtei (“to entangle, to coil”) whence (via another extension) Lithuanian taujóti (“to squash”), Latvian taũjât (“to wander”). Possibly distantly related to Sanskrit तौति (tauti, “to gain power, strength”).

*tulìti impf^[1]

1. to constrict, to cram, to congregate
2. to contain, to enfold, to sheath (perhaps secondary from *tulъ, *tula (“quiver, envelop”) + *-iti)

   → (by extension) to hide, to shelter

• *otuliti
• *potuliti
• *prituliti
• *zatuliti

• *tavati (“to roam around, to meander”)
• *tylъ (“nape”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: тулі́ць (tulícʹ, “to shelter”)
  • Russian: тулить (tulitʹ) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Russian: притули́ть (pritulítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: тули́ти (tulýty, “to press”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: тоулити (tuliti)
  • Bulgarian: ту́ля (túlja) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ту́лити

    Latin script: túliti

  • Slovene: túliti (“to squeeze”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: toulit (“to press”)
  • Polish: tulić (“to soothe”) (partially)
  • Slovak: túliť sa (“to press oneself against”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: tuliś (“to bend; to tame; to hide”)
    • Upper Sorbian: tuleć, tulić

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тулить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “taujóti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012