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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čapati

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

Onomatopoeic. Traditionally falsely connected with *keh₂p-. Compare *capati, *xapati.

Verb

*čapati

  1. to seize, to pick (on)

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: ча́пать (čápatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ча́патися (čápatysja)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: ча́пвам (čápvam), ча́пна (čápna, I peck, I hook up)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чапати
    • Slovene: čáраti (to catch)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: čараti, čарiti
    • Polish: сzарić, сzарać
    • Slovak: cáрať, čарiť (to strike, to grasp)

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čapati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 16
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