Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lopъ

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 Vasmer, of onomatopoeic origin.

The secondary meaning “gulping, devouring” is comparable with Latvian lepêt (“to eat vigorously”), Lithuanian lapénti (“to absorb”), Proto-Germanic *lapōną (“to lap, to slurp”), themselves onomatopoeic. Likely further akin to Ancient Greek λᾰ́πτω (lắptō, “to gulp, drink greedily”)

*lopъ m

1. smack, slap, spank

   Synonym: *xlopъ

2. (sound of) gulping, swallowing

• *lopati (“to rattle; to gulp, to swallow”), *lopiti (“to clap, to bang, to strike”)
  • *lopъka (“clot, wad”)
  • *lopę/*lopьnь (“loafer, slacker”)
• *lopьjь (“torrent, downpour”)
• *lopotь, *lopotьje, *lopota (“rag, tatter, frazzle cloth”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лоп (lop)
  • Russian: лоп (lop) (colloquial)
  • Ukrainian: лоп (lop)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лоп-лоп (lop-lop)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: лоп (lop, “robbery, plunder”) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ло̏п

    Latin script: lȍp

  • Slovene: lòp

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лопать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lopъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 77
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лоп-лоп”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 470
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “lópiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lápas (“leaf”), cognate with Lithuanian lãpas (“leaf”), Latvian lapa (“leaf, sheet of paper”). Probably akin to Proto-Germanic *lappô (“lap, rag”), Proto-Germanic *lattō (“lath, shutter, board”). C. D. Buck suggests further relationship to Ancient Greek λέπω (lépō, “to peel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

*lopъ m

1. (regional) plant, herb with large bulbous leaves

• *lopuxъ, *lopunъ (“burdock”)
• *lopurъ (“water lilly”)
• *lopěnъ (“mullein”)
• *lopata (“shovel”)
• *lopъta (“ball, orb”), *loputa (“valve”)

• *lapa (“paw”)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лоп (lop, “butterbur”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: лоп (lop, “water rose”)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lopъ II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 77
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лоп¹”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 470
• “lapas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė , 2007–2012