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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čerpъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *kerpas, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerpos (“shell, sharp object”) , from *(s)kerp-. The original meaning was "clay pot or vessel". For a semantic shift to "skull" compare Latin tēsta (“brick, tile”) > French tête (“head”). Alternatively, could have originated from *kʷerp- (“to whirl, to twist”).

Noun

*čȇrpъ m[1][2]

  1. skull
  2. broken piece of pottery

Inflection

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Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: черепъ (čerepŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: чрѣпъ (črěpŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱍⱃⱑⱂⱏ (črěpŭ)
    • Bulgarian: чреп (črep), цреп (crep) (obsolete, dialectal)
    • Macedonian: цреп (crep, “broken piece of pottery”), црепна (crepna)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: цре̑п, црије̑п
      Latin script: crȇp, crijȇp
    • Slovene: črép
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čerpъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 72
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “череп”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čȇrpъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 84: “m. o (c)”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “čerpъ čerpa”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c crock, fragment (NA 99; PR 137)”
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