Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sypati

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.

Formally reflecting Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀptei (je-present). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian sū́puoti (“to rock, cradle”), Latvian supata (“protrusion”), Old Prussian suppis.

*sỳpati impf

1. to pour, strew

• *sypъ (“lot, clump”)

• *suti (“to pour, strew”)
• *svepiti (“to stir, to move”)
• *sъpъ (“embankment”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сꙑпати (sypati)
    • Belarusian: сыпаць (sypacʹ)
    • Russian: сы́пать (sýpatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: си́пати (sýpaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сꙑпати (sypati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱏⰹⱂⰰⱅⰻ (sypati)

  • Bulgarian: си́пвам (sípvam)
  • Macedonian: сипе (sipe)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: си̏пати

    Latin script: sȉpati

  • Slovene: sípati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sypati
    • Czech: sypat
  • Old Polish: sypać
    • Polish: sypać
  • Kashubian: sëpac
  • Slovak: sypať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sypać
    • Lower Sorbian: sypaś

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 483
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сыпать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “сꙑпати”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 875