Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dripa

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.

Feminine of the sparsely attested *dripъ +‎ *-a, most likely derived from Pre-Slavic *driti (“to tow, to pluck”) +‎ *-pъ, either continuing Proto-Indo-European *drey- (“to tear off, to pluck”) or Proto-Indo-European *dʰrey- (“to tow, to drive”) (or both). ESSJa suggests a native Slavic origin and excludes direct relation to possible cognates such as Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps, “thrips”), Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive, to propel”).

*dripa f

1. rupture
2. rag, tatter

   (by generalization) → cloth

• *dripъ m

• *dьrpati (“to pull, to drag”)
• *drapati (“to scratch”)
• *drika (“pulling cart (without a driver), hearse”)

• *dripati (“to wear off”)
• *dripavъ (“shabby, ratty”)

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: дри́пи (drýpy) (pl.)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: дрипъ (dripŭ, “rupture (on cloths)”)
  • Bulgarian: дри́па (drípa)
  • Macedonian: дрипа (dripa, “cloth”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дри̏па

    Latin script: drȉpa

  • Slovene: drípa (“diarrhea”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dříp, dřípa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dripa

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dripa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 115
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дрипа”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 428