капь

See also: кип

Old Church Slavonic

капь

Etymology

An old borrowing from Oghur *käp, from Proto-Turkic *kēp. Compare Chuvash кап (kap, “image”), Hungarian kép.

Noun

капь • (kapĭ) f

image, shape
(paganism) idol

Derived terms

капище (kapište)
капищьница (kapištĭnica)
капищьнъ (kapištĭnŭ)

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian: кип
Macedonian: кип (kip)
Russian: кип (kip)
Slovene: kip

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “капище”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎, София

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