лапоть

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapъtь.

Pronunciation

Noun

ла́поть • (lápotʹ) m inan (genitive ла́птя, nominative plural ла́пти, genitive plural лапте́й, relational adjective ла́потный)

  1. bast shoe, bast sandal, lapti
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев , “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.
  2. an outdated, cumbersome, awkward thing
  3. ignorant, uneducated person, dropout (who might wear cheap, bast shoes)

Declension

Declension of ла́поть (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-e reduc) 
singular plural
nominative ла́поть
lápotʹ 		ла́пти
lápti
genitive ла́птя
láptja 		лапте́й
laptéj
dative ла́птю
láptju 		лаптя́м
laptjám
accusative ла́поть
lápotʹ 		ла́пти
lápti
instrumental ла́птем
láptem 		лаптя́ми
laptjámi
prepositional ла́пте
lápte 		лаптя́х
laptjáx

Derived terms

Phrases

Descendants

  • → Ingrian: lapti

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лапоть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lapъtъ/*lapъtь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 32
  • Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (1999), “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка (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 (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
  • Krylov, G. A. (2004) “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
  • Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “лапоть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 207
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