чепь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěpъ.

Noun

чепь (čepĭ) f

1. chain

Descendants

• Belarusian: цэп (cep)
• Russian: цеп (cep), цоп (cop) (dialectal), чап (čap), чеп (čep), цепы́ pl (cepý)
• Russian: цепь (cepʹ), цѣпь (cěpʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Armenian: ցեպ (cʻep)
  • → Finnish: sieppi
  • → Ingrian: tseppi
  • → Karelian: čieppi
  • → Kildin Sami: цӣп (cīp)
• Ukrainian: цеп (cep)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чепь”, 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), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1499