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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kopъtiti

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *kopъtěti

Etymology

From *kopъtь (soot) + *-iti.

Verb

*kopъtiti

  1. to soot, to blacken

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: коптити (koptiti)
      • Belarusian: капці́ць (kapcícʹ)
      • Russian: копти́ть (koptítʹ)
      • Ukrainian: кiптiти (kiptity)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
      Cyrillic script: ко̀птети
      Latin script: kòpteti
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: koptit
    • Polish: kopcić
    • Slovak: koptiť (dialectal)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: kopśiś

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kopъtiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 29
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “копти́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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