Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čepьcь

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

Compare Lithuanian kepùrė, Latvian cepure. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to ditch, to chop”), akin to Proto-Slavic *kopati (“to dig”), Proto-Slavic *skopiti (“to castrate”).

Noun

*čepьcь m

bonnet

Declension

Declension of *čepьcь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čepьcь	*čepьca	*čepьci
genitive	*čepьca	*čepьcu	*čepьcь
dative	*čepьcu	*čepьcema	*čepьcemъ
accusative	*čepьcь	*čepьca	*čepьcę̇
instrumental	čepьcьmь, čepьcemь^*	*čepьcema	*čepьci
locative	*čepьci	*čepьcu	*čepьcixъ
vocative	*čepьče	*čepьca	*čepьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чепьць (čepĭcĭ)
  - Belarusian: чапе́ц (čapjéc)
  - Russian: чепе́ц (čepéc)
  - Ukrainian: чепе́ць (čepécʹ)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чѐпац
  
  Latin script: čèpac
- Slovene: čȇpec
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: čepec
  - Czech: čepec
- Old Polish: czepiec
  - Polish: czepiec
  - Silesian: czepiec
- Slovak: čepiec
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: copc, cepc (dialectal)
  - Upper Sorbian: čěpc

References

Ľubor Králik, Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny, 2016, →ISBN.
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čepьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 58
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чепе́ц”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress