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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kopyto
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós.
Noun
*kopyto n
- hoof
Inflection
Declension of *kopyto (hard o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *kopyto | *kopytě | *kopyta |
| Accusative | *kopyto | *kopytě | *kopyta |
| Genitive | *kopyta | *kopytu | *kopytъ |
| Locative | *kopytě | *kopytu | *kopytěxъ |
| Dative | *kopytu | *kopytoma | *kopytomъ |
| Instrumental | *kopytъmь, *kopytomь* | *kopytoma | *kopyty |
| Vocative | *kopyto | *kopytě | *kopyta |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *kopytьnikъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: копыто (kopyto)
- Old Ruthenian: копы́то (kopýto)[1]
- Belarusian: капы́та (kapýta)
- Ukrainian: копи́то́ (kopýtó)
- Russian: копы́то (kopýto)
- Old Ruthenian: копы́то (kopýto)[1]
- Old East Slavic: копыто (kopyto)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: копи́то (kopíto)
- Macedonian: копито (kopito)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀пито
- Latin: kòpito
- Slovene: kopíto (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kopyto
- Czech: kopyto
- Old Polish: kopyto
- Polish: kopyto
- Slovak: kopyto
- Slovincian: kʉ̀ɵ̯pätɵ
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: kopyto
- Lower Sorbian: kopyto
- Old Czech: kopyto
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: copită
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*kopyto”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 219
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “копы́то”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (1996), “копыто”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 15 (катъ – коречный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 302