потопъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *potopъ.

Noun

потопъ • (potopŭ) m

  1. flood

Declension

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *potopъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic потопъ (potopŭ).

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /pɔˈtɔpʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /pɔˈtɔpʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /pɔˈtɔːp/
  • Hyphenation: по‧то‧пъ

Noun

потопъ (potopŭ) m

  1. flood, deluge
  2. (biblical) Flood, Deluge
    • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex, page 1:
      по потопѣ. первие сн҃ве ноеви раꙁдѣлиша ꙁемлю. симъ. хамъ. афетъ.
      po potopě. pervie sn:ve noevi razděliša zemlju. simŭ. xamŭ. afetŭ.
      After the Flood, the first sons of Noah divided the earth: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: пато́п (patóp)
  • Russian: пото́п (potóp)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: пото́па (potópa)
  • Ukrainian: пото́п (potóp)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “потопъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1293
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