Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pritъča

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *pritъknǫti (“to hit, to happen”), from *pri- + *tъknǫti.

Noun

*pritъča m

occurrence, incident
tale, story

Declension

Declension of *pritъča (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pritъča	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇
genitive	*pritъčę̇	*pritъču	*pritъčь
dative	*pritъči	*pritъčama	*pritъčamъ
accusative	*pritъčǫ	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇
instrumental	pritъčejǫ, pritъčǫ^**	*pritъčama	*pritъčami
locative	*pritъči	*pritъču	pritъčasъ, pritъčaxъ^*
vocative	*pritъče	*pritъči	*pritъčę̇

^* -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.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic: притъча (pritŭča)
- Belarusian: пры́тча (prýtča)
- Russian: при́тча (prítča)
  - → Armenian: պրիտչա (pritčʻa)
  - → Azerbaijani: pritça
- Ukrainian: при́тча (prýtča)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: притъча (pritŭča)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⰹⱅⱏⱍⰰ (pritŭča)
- Bulgarian: при́тча (prítča)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: при̑ча
  
  Latin script: prȋča
- Slovene: príča (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: przytcza

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “притча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress