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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- ~ *kʷap- (“to steam, to boil, to stink”) + *-ъtь, akin to Lithuanian kvãpas (“aroma”) and possibly Ancient Greek κάπυς (kápus, “fume”), Latin vapor, Sanskrit कपि (kapi, “murky, aromatic”).
Noun
*kopъtь f[1]
- soot
- Synonym: *saďa
- steam, fume, smoke (usually thick and dark)
- Synonym: *dymъ
Declension
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “копоть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kopъtъ/*kopъtь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 29
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “коптея, коптя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 622
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kopъtъ, *kopъtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 233