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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupa
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *daupāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowp-eh₂, from *dʰewp- (“deep”), alternative form of *dʰewbʰ-. Alternatively a Germanic borrowing.
Compare Lithuanian daubà (“ravine, hole, burrow”), Proto-Germanic *deupaz (> Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐍃 (diups, “deep”))
Noun
*dupa f[1]
- hole
- Synonym: *ama
Inflection
Declension of *dupa (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dupa | *dupě | *dupy |
| Accusative | *dupǫ | *dupě | *dupy |
| Genitive | *dupy | *dupu | *dupъ |
| Locative | *dupě | *dupu | *dupasъ, *dupaxъ* |
| Dative | *dupě | *dupama | *dupamъ |
| Instrumental | *dupojǫ, *dupǫ** | *dupama | *dupami |
| Vocative | *dupo | *dupě | *dupy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Alternative forms
- *dupę
Related terms
- *dьbrь (“valley, ravine”)
- *dъno (“bottom”)
Derived terms
- *dupina (“hole”)
- *dupiti
- *dupьnъ
- *duplo (“hole, hollow, cavity”)
- *dupľa (“hollow”)
- *duplina
- *duplьje
- *duplь (“hollow”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ду́па (dúpa)
- Russian: ду́па (dúpa), дуп m (dup)
- Old Ukrainian: дꙋ́па (dúpa)
- Ukrainian: ду́па (dúpa)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ду́пка (dúpka), дупе n (dupe), дуп m (dup)
- Macedonian: дупка (dupka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̏пка, ду̏пе n
- Latin: dȕpka, dȕpe n
- Slovene: dúpa (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: doupa, dupa, doupě n
- Kashubian: dupa
- Polish: dupa
- Slovak: dúpa
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: dupa
- Lower Sorbian: dupa, duṕe n
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дупло”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dupa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 157
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dupa; *dupę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124: “f. ā; n. nt ‘hole’”