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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xapati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Onomatopoeic. Traditionally sometimes derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʰap-, but it is nowadays reconstructed as *keh₂p- and must therefore be a separate onomatopoeia.

Verb

*xapati

  1. to bite, to seize

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: хапати (xapati, to seize, to bite, to sting, to trample) (11th century; accent paradigm b)
      • Belarusian: хапа́ць (xapácʹ, to grab)
      • Russian: ха́пать (xápatʹ, to seize, to grab), 1sg. ха́паю (xápaju); dialectal хапа́ть (xapátʹ)
      • Ukrainian: хапа́ти (xapáty, to seize, to steal, to grab)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: хапьѭще (xapĭjǫšte, (while) biting, nom. masc. pl. pres. act. part.)
    • Bulgarian: (ха́пвам (hápvam), ха́пна (hápna, to bite))
    • Macedonian: апе (ape)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: апати (to bite, to sting) (dialectal)
      Latin: apati (to bite, to sting) (dialectal)
    • Slovene: hȃpati (to snap, (reflexive) to seize) (tonal orthography), 1sg. hȃpam (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: chápat (to grasp, to understand, to seize)
    • Polish: chapać (to seize)
    • Slovak: сháраť (to understand)
    • Slovincian: χȧ̃păc (to seize)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: chapjaś

References

  • Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), ха́пать”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 333
  • Derksen, Rick (2008), “*xāpàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 202
  • Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1981), *xapati”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 08, Moscow: Nauka, page 18
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), ха́пать”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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