Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trepati

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.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to thread”), perhaps derived/reanalyzed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *treptei (“to stomp, to swing”) (cf. obsolete Lithuanian trepti (“to tramp”)), whence Lithuanian trepénti, trepsė́ti (“to stomp”) (with desiderative-causative extension), Latvian trepêt (“to weather out”), Old Prussian ertreppa (“to cross”). Furhter akin to Ancient Greek τραπέω (trapéō, “to squeeze”), Latin trepidus (“agitated”), Sanskrit तृप्र (tṛprá, “unstable”).

*trepàti impf (perfective *trepnǫti)^[1]

1. (transitive) to jerk?, to twitch?, to yank?

   Synonyms: *dьrgati, *śěpati

2. (transitive) to scutch?, to swingle?

• *trepačь (agent noun)
• >? *trepeto (“sift”) (in East Slavic)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: трепати (trepati)
    • Old Ruthenian: трепати (trepati)
      • Belarusian: трепа́ць (trjepácʹ)
      • Ukrainian: (obsolete or dialectal) трепа́ти (trepáty), тре́пати (trépaty)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: тріпа́ти (tripáty), трі́пати (trípaty)
    • Russian: трепа́ть (trepátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: тре́пя (trépja), dial. тре́пам (trépam)
  • Slovene: trépati, trepáti (tonal orthography)
    • ⇒ Slovene: trepljáti
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: třepat
  • Old Polish: trzepać
    • Polish: trzepać
  • Slovak: trepať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: tśapaś, tśepaś
    • Upper Sorbian: třepać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “трепа́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “trepenti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012