Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čupъ

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.

Per Snoj, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewp-, akin to Proto-Germanic *skuftą (“bundle, hair”). At least partially of onomatopoeic origin, equivalent to e-grade of *kujati (“to caw, to crook”) +‎ *-pъ. Similar to Proto-Slavic *čukъ (“knock”).

Probably, further related to Proto-Slavic *čubъ (“crest, forelock”) and Proto-Slavic *skuti (“to pluck (hair, weeds)”), the later akin to Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (“to shove”).

*čűpъ m^[1]

1. kink, crook, grapple

   → (by extension) crest (of birds), strand (of hair)

   Synonyms: *kyčurъ, *griva (partially)

2. (onomatopoeic) crack, fracture

• *čubъ (“crest, forelock”)
• *čukъ (“knock, hammer”)
• *kyka (“pigtail”)
• *kyčurъ (“tuft”)

• *čupъka (diminutive)
• *čupiti (“to crack, to break”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: чуп (čup) (colloquial)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: чуп! (čup!, “approx. Get out of here!”), чупка (čupka, “kink, crook; firg. bun of hair”) (diminutive)
  • Macedonian: чупа f (čupa, “crest”) (dialectal), чупе (čupe, “bonnie girl”) (diminutive)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: чу̏п
    • Latin script: čȕp
  • Slovene: čȗp (“strand of hair, tuft”) (colloquial), čȍp, čōpka (diminutive)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: czup (colloquial)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чуб”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress