Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sypati

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

Formally reflecting Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀptei (je-present). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian sū́puoti (“to rock, cradle”), Latvian supata (“protrusion”), Old Prussian suppis.

Verb

*sỳpati impf

1. to pour, strew

Inflection

Conjugation of *sypati, *sypa, *sypľetь (impf., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*sypanьje	*sypati	*sypatъ	*sypalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*sypanъ	*sypľemъ
Active	*sypavъ	*sypľę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sypaxъ	*sypa	*sypa	*sypľǫ	*sypľeši	*sypľetь
Dual	*sypaxově	*sypasta	*sypaste	*sypľevě	*sypľeta	*sypľete
Plural	*sypaxomъ	*sypaste	*sypašę	*sypľemъ	*sypľete	*sypľǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sypaaxъ	*sypaaše	*sypaaše	—	*sypľi	*sypľi
Dual	*sypaaxově	*sypaašeta	*sypaašete	*sypľivě	*sypľita	—
Plural	*sypaaxomъ	*sypaašete	*sypaaxǫ	*sypľimъ	*sypľite	—

Derived terms

• *sypъ (“lot, clump”)

Related terms

• *suti (“to pour, strew”)
• *svepiti (“to stir, to move”)
• *sъpъ (“embankment”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сꙑпати (sypati)
    • Belarusian: сыпаць (sypacʹ)
    • Russian: сы́пать (sýpatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: си́пати (sýpaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сꙑпати (sypati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱏⰹⱂⰰⱅⰻ (sypati)

  • Bulgarian: си́пвам (sípvam)
  • Macedonian: сипе (sipe)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: си̏пати

    Latin script: sȉpati

  • Slovene: sípati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sypati
    • Czech: sypat
  • Old Polish: sypać
    • Polish: sypać
  • Kashubian: sëpac
  • Slovak: sypať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sypać
    • Lower Sorbian: sypaś

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 483
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сыпать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “сꙑпати”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 875