spiła

See also: spila and spilå

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-Baltic [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
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 60, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
  piorko [piórko] — ſpiła
  piorko [piórko] — quill

References

Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 79: “ſpiła ‘plunksnelė, l. piorko’ 60.”
B. Kabašinskaitė & G. Klingenschmitt (2013) “Again on Lith. SPALVÀ: accent and etymology”, in Lietuvių kalba, volume 7, →DOI, pages 1–8 (does not discuss Sudovian)

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