Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kopyto

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 Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós.

Noun

*kopyto n

1. hoof

Inflection

Declension of *kopyto (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kopyto	*kopytě	*kopyta
genitive	*kopyta	*kopytu	*kopytъ
dative	*kopytu	*kopytoma	*kopytomъ
accusative	*kopyto	*kopytě	*kopyta
instrumental	*kopytъmь, *kopytomь*	*kopytoma	*kopyty
locative	*kopytě	*kopytu	*kopytěxъ
vocative	*kopyto	*kopytě	*kopyta

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

Derived terms

• *kopytьnikъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: копыто (kopyto)
    • Old Ruthenian: копы́то (kopýto)
      • Belarusian: капы́та (kapýta)
      • Ukrainian: копи́то́ (kopýtó)
    • Russian: копы́то (kopýto)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: копи́то (kopíto)
  • Macedonian: копито (kopito)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀пито

    Latin script: kòpito

  • Slovene: kopíto (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kopyto
    • Czech: kopyto
  • Old Polish: kopyto
    • Polish: kopyto
  • Slovak: kopyto
  • Slovincian: kôpëtô
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kopyto
    • Lower Sorbian: kopyto

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: copită

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*kopyto”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 219
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “копы́то”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress