Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tělo

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.

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1=*golva 2=*lice 3=*vyja, *šija 4=*ormo, *pleťe 5=*pьrsь, *grǫdь 6=*pǫpъ 7=*břuxo, *červo 8=*dymę 9=*xujь 10=*bedro 11=*kolěno 12=*golěnь, *piščalь 13=*gleznъ 16=*olkъtь 18=*kytъka 19=*pęstь, *dolnь 10-14=*noga, *korkъ 15-19=*rǫka

Uncertain. Sayenko links this word with *tьlěti (“to decay; to smolder”). Vasmer lists some other explanations (which he finds unsatisfactory).

The dialectal Russian form тель (telʹ, “body”) is feminized and translated into another type of declension.

*tě̑lo n

1. body

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тѣло (tělo)
    • Old Ruthenian: тѣ́ло (tě́lo), ти́ло (tílo)
      • Belarusian: це́ла (cjéla)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: тї́ло (tjílo)
      • Ukrainian: ті́ло (tílo)
    • Russian: те́ло (télo)
  • Old Novgorodian: тѣло (tělo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⱑⰾⱁ (tělo)

    Old Cyrillic script: тѣло (tělo)

    • Bulgarian: тя́ло (tjálo)
    • Macedonian: тело (telo)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те̑ло, тије̑ло, тило

    Latin script: tȇlo, tijȇlo, tilo

  • Slovene: telọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tělo
    • Czech: tělo
  • Old Polish: ciało
    • Polish: ciało
    • Silesian: ciało
  • Old Slovak: telo, celo
    • Pannonian Rusyn: цело (celo)
    • Slovak: telo
  • Polabian: *ťolü
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: cało
    • Slovincian: calô
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćěło
    • Lower Sorbian: śěło

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тело”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “тело”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 234
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тѣло”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ ‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1091