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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)
      • Belarusian: ца́паць (cápacʹ)
      • Russian: ца́пать (cápatʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ца́пати (cápaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: ца́пам (cápam)
    • Macedonian: цапа (capa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: цапати, ца̏пати (dialectal)
      Latin script: capati, cȁpati (dialectal)
    • Slovene: capáti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: capati, cápati
    • Polish: capać
    • Slovak: cápať
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: capaś
      • Upper Sorbian: capać

Further reading

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, page 73: “v. ‘tramp’”
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