Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъlpь
Proto-Slavic
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editEtymology
editSee *gъlbь. Cognate with Old Prussian gulbis (“swan”), Lithuanian gulbìs (“swan”), Latvian gùlbis (“swan”). Also compare with Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”) (whence also *golǫbь), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”).
Noun
edit*kъlpь m
Derived terms
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References
edit- Derksen, Rick (2015) “gulbis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 192
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъlpъ/*kъlpь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 189