spiła
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspi.wa/
- Rhymes: -iwa
- Syllabification: spi‧ła
Verb
spiła
- third-person singular feminine past of spić
Sudovian
Etymology
- Zinkevičius compares the word to Latvian spilšs (“clear, pure, bright”).[1]
- Alternatively, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelh- (“to split, separate, sever”). Compare Latvian spal̃va (“feather, hair, quill”), spilva (“cottongrass, little hair-like growths”), and Lithuanian spalvà (“color”) with further semantic development.[2]
Noun
ſpiła
- little feather, quill
- 1985 [1984], Pogańske gwary z Narewu [Pagan dialects from Narew], sourced from copy by V. Zinow, line 60:
- piorko [piórko] — ſpiła
- quill
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 79: “ſpiła ‘plunksnelė, l. piorko’ 60.”
- ^ B. Kabašinskaitė & G. Klingenschmitt (2013), “Again on Lith. SPALVÀ: accent and etymology”, in Lietuvių kalba, volume 7, , pages 1–8 (does not discuss Sudovian)