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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/capati

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

From *capъ + *-ati.

Verb

*capati impf[1]

  1. (transitive) to catch, nab something quickly
  2. (intransitive) to wade, walk on water, mud with noise

Inflection

Later generalized among some daughter branches as:

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: цапати (capati)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: capati, cápati
    • Polish: capać (obsolete)
    • Slovak: cápať
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: capaś
      • Upper Sorbian: capać

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*capati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 171
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ца́пать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*capati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 73:v. ‘tramp’
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