Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/selo

Probably akin to Lithuanian selė́ti (“to scroll, to skid”), salà (“isle; countryside”), Latgalian sola (“rural area”) within Balto-Slavic; Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”), Latin solum (“base, foundation; sole of the foot”) in other Indo-European dialects. Further origin is left unspecified within the literature. Some of the proposed related terms have been tentatively linked to Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to drive, to meander”) (per Smoczyński, Būga).

Compare also Hittite [script needed] (šēli-, “granary”), Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “rick, stack”) (speculated to be an Anatolian borrowing).

*selò n[1][2][3]

1. arable land, rural area, acre (agricultural administrative unit)

   Synonyms: (East Slavic) *dьrvьňa, (South Slavic) *zemľišče

2. village (in East, South Slavic merged with *sēdlò (“settlement”)[3])

   Synonym: *vьsь

• *sedlo (“settlement”) (homophonous with the current term in East, South Slavic), *sědlo (“residence, seat”)
• *město (“suitable place, location”)
• *gordъ (“fortified settlement”)

• *seliti, *vъseliti (“to cultivate”)
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: въсел҄енаꙗ (vŭselʹenaja, “ecumene”) (calque of Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē, “cultivated land, ecumene”))
• *selьskъ (“rural”)
• *selьcь, *seľaninъ (“rural person, villager”)

• Любовь Куркина (2006) “Славянские термины земледелия в контексте индоевропейских связей”, in Studia etymologica Brunesia, volume 3, pages 152-162
• А. К. Шапошников (2016) “Материалы к этимологическому словарю славянских древностей Греции II”, in Труды Института русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова, number 8, Moscow, →ISSN, page 176
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “село”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “село”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 152
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “село”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 602
• “sala”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012