лапоть
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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapъtь.
Pronunciation
Noun
ла́поть • (lápotʹ) m inan (genitive ла́птя, nominative plural ла́пти, genitive plural лапте́й, relational adjective ла́потный)
- bast shoe, bast sandal, lapti
- 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 28”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
- Он ничего́ ру́сского не чита́ет, но на пи́сьменном столе́ у него́ нахо́дится сере́бряная пе́пельница в ви́де мужи́цкого ла́птя.
- On ničevó rússkovo ne čitájet, no na písʹmennom stolé u nevó naxóditsja serébrjanaja pépelʹnica v víde mužíckovo láptja.
- He reads nothing in Russian, but on his writing-desk there stands a silver ash tray in the shape of a peasant's plaited shoe.
- an outdated, cumbersome, awkward thing
- ignorant, uneducated person, dropout (who might wear cheap, bast shoes)
Declension
Declension of ла́поть (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-e reduc)
Derived terms
- ла́потник m anim (lápotnik), ла́потница f anim (lápotnica)
- ла́потный (lápotnyj), безла́потный (bezlápotnyj)
- лапото́к (lapotók), лапти́шка (laptíška), ла́потка (lápotka), лапото́чек (lapotóček)
- Phrases
- плюс-ми́нус ла́поть (pljus-mínus lápotʹ)
Descendants
- → Ingrian: lapti
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лапоть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lapъtъ/*lapъtь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 32
- Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (1999), “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 9 (Л), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 27
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “лапоть”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Krylov, G. A. (2004) “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
- Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 207