Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čerpъ

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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

Declension of *čȇrpъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*čȇrpъ	*čȇrpa	*čȇrpi
Accusative	*čȇrpъ	*čȇrpa	*čȇrpy
Genitive	*čȇrpa	*čerpù	*čẽrpъ
Locative	*čȇrpě	*čerpù	*čerpě̃xъ
Dative	*čȇrpu	*čerpomà	*čerpòmъ
Instrumental	*čȇrpъmь, *čȇrpomь*	*čerpomà	*čerpý
Vocative	*čerpe	*čȇrpa	*čȇrpi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: черепъ (čerepŭ)
    • Belarusian: чэ́рап (čérap)
    • Russian: че́реп (čérep)
    • Ukrainian: че́реп (čérep)
    • → Polish: czerep
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: чрѣпъ (črěpŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱍⱃⱑⱂⱏ (črěpŭ)

  • Bulgarian: че́реп (čérep)
  • Macedonian: череп (čerep, “skull”), цреп (crep, “broken piece of pottery”), црепна (crepna)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: цре̑п, црије̑п

    Latin: crȇp, crijȇp

  • Slovene: črép
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čřěp
    • Czech: střep
  • Kashubian: czërzep
  • Old Polish: trzop
    • Polish: trzop, strzop (archaic, dialectal)
  • Slovak: črep
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: crjop
    • Upper Sorbian: črjop

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: cserép

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čerpъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4 (*čaběniti – *děl’a), Moscow: Nauka, page 72
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “череп”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and 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, 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)”