jьgъlà

jьgъlà Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `needle'

Page in Trubačev: VIII 213-214

Old Church Slavic:

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Church Slavic:

igla `needle' [f ā]

Russian:

iglá `needle' [f ā]

Ukrainian:

hólka `needle' [f ā];

ihlá (dial.) `needle' [f ā]

Czech:

jehla `needle' [f ā];

ihɫa (dial.) `needle' [f ā]

Slovak:

ihla `needle' [f ā]

Polish:

igɫa `needle, pin' [f ā];

jegɫa (dial.) `needle, pin' [f ā]

Slovincian:

jìe̯glă `needle' [f ā]

Lower Sorbian:

gɫa `needle' [f ā]

Polabian:

jḁglă `needle' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

ìgla `needle' [f ā], ȉglu [Accs];

jìgla (dial.) `needle' [f ā];

jàgla (dial.) `needle' [f ā];

Čak. iglȁ (Vrgada) `needle' [f ā], ȉglu [Accs];

Čak. iglȁ (Novi) `needle' [f ā];

Čak. jȏgla (Hvar) `needle' [f ā], ȉglu [Accs];

Čak. ȉgla (Orbanići) `needle' [f ā], ȉglo [Accs]

Slovene:

ígla `needle, kingpin' [f ā];

iglà `needle, kingpin' [f ā];

jǝ̀gla `needle, kingpin' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

iglá `needle' [f ā]

Old Prussian:

ayculo `needle' [f ā]

Comments: The connection with Lith. (dial.) áigyti `prick, sting, incite, beat', aĩgaras `straw' (Toporov PJ s.v. ayculo), does not seem implausible. OPr. ayculo may have <c> for g. The assumption that ay- reflects *ei is not trivial. The Slavic root may have either zero grade or e-grade unless the root has initial *h₂ or *h₃. Note that in case of a zero grade in the root the *u of the suffix would have blocked the progressive palatalization.

Notes:

\{1\} According to the Staroslavjanskij slovar', the adjective igъlinъ occurs nine times, always in the context skvozě igъlině uši `through the eye of a needle'.