Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupa

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *daupāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowp-eh₂, from *dʰewp-, alternative form of *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Doublet of *ďupa. Alternatively a Germanic borrowing.

Compare Lithuanian daubà (“ravine, hole, burrow”), Proto-Germanic *deupaz (> Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐍃 (diups, “deep”))

Noun

*dupa f[1]

hole
Synonym: *ama

Inflection

Declension of *dupa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dupa	*dupě	*dupy
genitive	*dupy	*dupu	*dupъ
dative	*dupě	*dupama	*dupamъ
accusative	*dupǫ	*dupě	*dupy
instrumental	dupojǫ, dupǫ^**	*dupama	*dupami
locative	*dupě	*dupu	dupasъ, dupaxъ^*
vocative	*dupo	*dupě	*dupy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Alternative forms

*dupę

Related terms

*dьbrь (“valley, ravine”)
*dъno (“bottom”)
*ďupa (“hole”)

Derived terms

*dupina (“hole”)
*dupiti
*dupьnъ
*duplo (“hole, hollow, cavity”)
- *dupľa (“hollow”)
- *duplina
- *duplьje
- *duplь (“hollow”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *дупа (*dupa)
  - Old Ruthenian: ду́па (dúpa)
    - Belarusian: ду́па (dúpa)
    - Ukrainian: ду́па (dúpa)
  - Russian: ду́па (dúpa), дуп m (dup)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ду́пка (dúpka), дупе n (dupe), дуп m (dup)
- Macedonian: дупка (dupka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ду̏пка, ду̏пе n
  
  Latin: dȕpka, dȕpe n
- Slovene: dúpa (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: dúpa, dúpě
  - Czech: doupa, dupa, doupě n
- Kashubian: dupa
- Polish: dupa
- Slovak: dúpa
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: dupa
  - Lower Sorbian: dupa, duṕe n

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dupa; *dupę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 124: “f. ā; n. nt ‘hole’”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dupa; *dupę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 124: “f. ā; n. nt ‘hole’”