Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vъpiti

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *up-, from Proto-Indo-European *up-, from *wep-. Cognate with Latvian ūpêt (“to scream (of birds)”) (1sg. ūpẽju), ūpôt (“to howl”), Lithuanian ùpas (“echo”), Latvian ũpis (“owl”), Avestan 𐬎𐬟𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬨𐬌 (ufiieimi, “to call out”), Old High German ūfo, ūvo (“night owl”), Old Norse úfr (“night owl”), Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (“bad spirit”). Sometimes compared with Russian ва́бить (vábitʹ, “to lure with a birdcall”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to shout out”), although the root consonants don't quite align.

*vъpìti

1. to cry out

• *vypь (“wader, sea bird (in general)”)
• *vъplь (“cry, wail”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: вопи́ть (vopítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: въпити (vŭpiti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: въпи́я (vǎpíja) (dated)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ва̀пити, у̀пити

    Latin: vàpiti, ùpiti

  • Slovene: vpíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: úpiti
    • Czech: úpět
  • Slovak: upeť

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vъpìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 532
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вопи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress