капь

See also: кип

Old Church Slavonic

капь

Etymology

An old borrowing from Oghur *käp, from Proto-Turkic *kēp. Compare Chuvash кап (kap, “image”), Hungarian kép.

Noun

капь • (kapĭ) f

1. image, shape
2. (paganism) idol

Derived terms

• капище (kapište)
• капищьница (kapištĭnica)
• капищьнъ (kapištĭnŭ)

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: кип
• Macedonian: кип (kip)
• Russian: кип (kip)
• Slovene: kip

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “капище”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎^[1], София