Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъrpati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

By surface analysis, *kъrpa +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*kъrpati[1]

  1. to patch

Inflection

  • *kъrpěti (ĕ/i-conj.), *kъrpiti (i-conj.)
  • *kъrpatъ

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ко́рпаць (kórpacʹ), карпа́ць (karpácʹ)
    • Russian: корпа́ть (korpátʹ) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: ко́рпати (kórpaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: къ́рпам (kǎ́rpam) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кр̏пати
      Latin script: kȑpati
    • Slovene: kr̄pati (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: krpati
      • Czech: krpat
    • Polish: karpać (dialectal)
    • Slovak: krpať

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъrpati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 237

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “корпа́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress