Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čepьcь

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

Compare Lithuanian kepùrė, Latvian cȩpure. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to ditch, to chop”), akin to Proto-Slavic *kopati (“to dig”), Proto-Slavic *skopiti (“to castrate”).

Noun

*čepьcь m

bonnet

Declension

Declension of *čepьcь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*čepьcь	*čepьca	*čepьci
Accusative	*čepьcь	*čepьca	*čepьcę̇
Genitive	*čepьca	*čepьcu	*čepьcь
Locative	*čepьci	*čepьcu	*čepьcixъ
Dative	*čepьcu	*čepьcema	*čepьcemъ
Instrumental	čepьcьmь, čepьcemь^*	*čepьcema	*čepьci
Vocative	*čepьče	*čepьca	*čepьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чепьць (čepĭcĭ)
  - Belarusian: чапе́ц (čapjéc)
  - Russian: чепе́ц (čepéc)
  - Ukrainian: чепе́ць (čepécʹ)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: чѐпац
  Latin: čèpac
- Slovene: čȇpec
West Slavic:
- Czech: čepec
- Polish: czepiec
- Slovak: čepiec
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: copc, cepc (dialectal)
  - Upper Sorbian: čěpc

References

Ľubor Králik, Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny, 2016, →ISBN.
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čepьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 58
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чепе́ц”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress