Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/potopъ

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

Etymology

Deverbal from *potopìti (“to submerge, to inundate”).

Noun

*potopъ m

deluge, flood

Declension

Declension of *potopъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*potopъ	*potopa	*potopi
genitive	*potopa	*potopu	*potopъ
dative	*potopu	*potopoma	*potopomъ
accusative	*potopъ	*potopa	*potopy
instrumental	potopъmь, potopomь^*	*potopoma	*potopy
locative	*potopě	*potopu	*potopěxъ
vocative	*potope	*potopa	*potopi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic
- Old East Slavic: потопъ (potopŭ)
  - Belarusian: пато́п (patóp)
  - Russian: пото́п (potóp)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: пото́па (potópa)
  - Ukrainian: пото́п (potóp)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: потопъ (potopŭ)
  - → Romanian: potop
- Bulgarian: потоп (potop)
- Macedonian: потоп (potop)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: по̀топ
  
  Latin script: pòtop
- Slovene: potòp (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: potopa f
- Polish: potop
- Slovak: potopa f