Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/snopъ

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.

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, to weave”) + *-opъ. Compare Bulgarian вързо́п (vǎrzóp, “bundle”), Macedonian врзоп (vrzop, “bundle”) from Proto-Slavic *vьrzati (“to tie, to bind”). It may be possible to identify the ending with that of synonymous Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf, bundle”), and a kindred combination may be present in Old High German snuoba, snuaba (“band, lace”) and Gothic preserved in Spanish eslabón (“link of a chain”), minus s-mobile in Proto-Italic *nopnā reflected in diminutive Latin numella (“a collar to impede movement”).

The development of accentuation in the dialects of the Galician group speaks in favor of the reconstruction of the u-stem: *snòpъ, gen. *snopù.

*snòpъ m

1. sheaf, bundle

• *snuti (“to warp”)
• *snovàti (“to warp”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: снопъ (snopŭ)
    • Belarusian: сноп (snop)

      (Stolin city): snọp

      (Simonovichy village, Brest Region): snɨp

      (Lukava village, Brest Region): snip

    • Russian: сноп (snop)
    • Ukrainian: сніп (snip)

      (Galician group): snɨ̊p, sniɨ̯̊p, snʉp, snüp, snɪ̊p, ś’n’i̊p, snůp

      (Plekhiv village, Chernihiv Region): snóp

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: снопъ (snopŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱀⱁⱂⱏ (snopŭ)

  • Bulgarian: сноп (snop)
  • Macedonian: сноп (snop)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сно̏п

    Latin script: snȍp

    (Brač): snȍp

    (Hvar): snȍp

    (Sali): snȍp

    (Susak): snȍp

  • Slovene: snȍp (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: snop
    • Czech: snop
  • Polabian: snüp
  • Old Polish: snop
    • Polish: snop
  • Slovak: snop

    (Novohradské dialects): snop

  • Pannonian Rusyn: сноп (snop)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: snop
    • Upper Sorbian: snop

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: snop

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сноп”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “сноп”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 251