చెప్పు

See also: చిప్ప

Telugu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕepːu/, [t͡ʃepːu]
Rhymes: -ప్పు

Etymology 1

From Proto-Dravidian *keruppu.

Noun

చెప్పు • (ceppu) ? (plural చెప్పులు)

footwear
A shoe.
కంటికి రెప్ప, కాలికి చెప్పు
kaṇṭiki reppa, kāliki ceppu
A lid to the eye, a shoe to the foot.

Descendants

(From the plural చెప్పులు (ceppulu)):

→ Armenian: չափուլա (čʿapʿula)
→ Dari: چپلی‎ (čaplī)
→ Hindi: चप्पल (cappal)
- → English: chappal
→ Ishkashimi: čaplí
→ Marathi: चप्पल (cappal)
→ Old Georgian: ჩაფლაჲ (čaplay)
- >? Middle Georgian: ჩაფულა (čapula) (or doublet from Ottoman Turkish)
  - Georgian: ჩაფულა (čapula)
  - →? Laz: ჩაბლა (çabla), ჩაფლა (çapla), ჩაფულა (çapula) (or from Ottoman Turkish)
  - → Mingrelian: ჩაფულა (čapula), ჩაფჷლა (čapəla), ჩაფია (čapia), ჩაფილა (čapila), ჩაფლა (čapla)
    - → Svan: ჩაფჷლ (čapəl)
  - →⇒ Svan: ფაჩლარულ (pačlarul, “barefoot”)
→ Pashto: څپلۍ‎ (śaplə́y)
→⇒ Persian: پاچیله‎ (pâčila)
→ Turkish: çapula, çabula, çabla
→ Urdu: چپل‎ (cappal)
- → Kalasha: چامپیلؕ‎ (čampéḷ)
→ Wakhi: čaplí
→ Waneci: [script needed] (cəplī)

Further reading

Абаев, В. И. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, page 387
Morgenstierne, Georg (2003), Elfenbein, J.; MacKenzie, D. N.; Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN, page 17
Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 121
Thiesen, Finn (2017), “Paṩto etymologies: Corrections and additions to A new etymological vocabulary of Pashto”, in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen et al., editors, Usque ad radices: Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European; 8), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, page 735

Verb

చెప్పు • (ceppu) (causal చెప్పించు)

To say, tell.
To teach, to speak of.
To write or compose a poem.
To describe, tell of.
To term, call, name, denominate.

Conjugation

PAST TENSE	singular	plural
1st person: నేను (nēnu) / మేము (mēmu)	చెప్పాను (ceppānu)	చెప్పాము (ceppāmu)
2nd person: నీవు (nīvu) / మీరు (mīru)	చెప్పావు (ceppāvu)	చెప్పారు (ceppāru)
3rd person m: అతను (atanu) / వారు (vāru)	చెప్పాడు (ceppāḍu)	చెప్పారు (ceppāru)
3rd person f: ఆమె (āme) / వారు (vāru)	చెప్పింది (ceppindi)	చెప్పారు (ceppāru)

References

"చెప్పు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 429

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