Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skula

Etymology
. It is not even certain if all meanings of the word descend from the same source, especially given that not all descendants agree on the place of the stress.

The meaning cheekbone is likely derived from a s-mobile variant of, which also gave 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. These Slavic form differs in grammatical gender from the Baltic lemmas, however, this can be explained with the broad shape of the cheek bone (conveyed via the collective marker ), in contrast to the generic meaning of the Baltic forms.

The other meanings, conveying cleft or injury/blister, are most likely belongs to the same proto-root as, the s-mobile counterpart of.

Noun

 * 1) cheekbone
 * 2) cleft
 * 3) blister, disease

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * Church Slavonic:
 * West Slavic:
 * (with *-ina extension)
 * (with *-ina extension)
 * Church Slavonic:
 * West Slavic:
 * (with *-ina extension)
 * (with *-ina extension)
 * West Slavic:
 * (with *-ina extension)
 * (with *-ina extension)