Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kapľa

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

From *kapati + *-ja.

Noun

*kapľa f

  1. drop

Inflection

Declension of *kapľa (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *kapľa *kapľi *kapľę̇
genitive *kapľę̇ *kapľu *kapľь
dative *kapľi *kapľama *kapľamъ
accusative *kapľǫ *kapľi *kapľę̇
instrumental *kapľejǫ, *kapľǫ** *kapľama *kapľami
locative *kapľi *kapľu *kapľasъ, *kapľaxъ*
vocative *kapľe *kapľi *kapľę̇

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: ка́пля (káplja)
    • Ukrainian: ка́пля (káplja)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: каплꙗ (kaplja)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ка̏пља m
      Latin script: kȁplja m
    • Slovene: káplja (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: kápě
    • Polish: kарlа, kарiа

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ка́пля”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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