тулица

From Proto-Slavic *tulica, formed as ту́ля (túlja, “to sheath, to contain”) (dialectal) +‎ -ица (-ica). Akin to Old Church Slavonic тоулъ (tulŭ, “quiver”), Slovene tȗl, tȗlica (“quiver”), Serbo-Croatian ту̀љац (“quiver”), Russian тулья́ (tulʹjá, “type of hat”), Ukrainian відту́лина (vidtúlyna, “hole, hollow”).

Compare also Tulica (a river and a place-name in Central Bosnia), Tulnik (a village in Croatia).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtulit͡sɐ]

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• Rhymes: -ulit͡sɐ
• Syllabification^(key): ту‧ли‧ца

ту́лица • (túlica) f

1. (dated) constraint, curtailment

   Synonym: стесне́ние (stesnénie)

2. (dialectal) bottleneck

• ту́лец m (túlec)

• Ту́лча (Túlča, “Tulcea”) (via Romanian, originally called Тулица)
• ту́лище (túlište) (augmentative)

• ту́ля (túlja) (dialectal)
• туле́й (tuléj), туле́йка (tuléjka, “hook, peg, ear of a tool”) (dialectal)
• вту́лка (vtúlka, “sleeve, collar”)

• Nayden Gerov; Тодор Панчев (1904), “ту́льцъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 379