Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sъpati

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.

Proto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *supn-. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *supn- +‎ *-ati, from *swep- (to sleep). Cognate with Lithuanian sapnuoti (to dream), Sanskrit स्वपति (svápati), स्वपिति (svápiti, to sleep), Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬟𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (xᵛafsaiti, to sleep), Latin sōpīre (to fall asleep), Proto-Germanic *swefaną (to sleep), Old English swefan (to sleep) (whence obsolete English asweve (to put to sleep, to stupefy)). Also cognate with Proto-Germanic *swefnaz, Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos), Latin somnus, Old Irish súan. See also Proto-Slavic *sъ̀nъ (sleep, dream).

Verb edit

*sъpati impf[1][2]

  1. to sleep

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “спать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 192
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “спать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sъpati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 481
  2. ^ Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch[1], University of Vienna, page 6: “*sъpa̋ti”