Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o(b)pytъ

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 *o(b)pytati +‎ *-ъ, from *pytati (“to ask, examine”).

Noun

*o(b)pytъ m

1. probe, trial

   Synonym: *kusъ

2. (by abstraction) experience

Declension

Declension of *o(b)pytъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*o(b)pytъ	*o(b)pyta	*o(b)pyti
genitive	*o(b)pyta	*o(b)pytu	*o(b)pytъ
dative	*o(b)pytu	*o(b)pytoma	*o(b)pytomъ
accusative	*o(b)pytъ	*o(b)pyta	*o(b)pyty
instrumental	*o(b)pytъmь, *o(b)pytomь*	*o(b)pytoma	*o(b)pyty
locative	*o(b)pytě	*o(b)pytu	*o(b)pytěxъ
vocative	*o(b)pyte	*o(b)pyta	*o(b)pyti

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: опꙑтъ (opytŭ), опутъ (oputŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: о́пытъ (ópyt)
      • Ukrainian: о́пит (ópyt)
    • Russian: о́пыт (ópyt); о́пут (óput) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: о́пит (ópit)
  • Macedonian: опит (opit)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: опит

    Latin script: opit

• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: opyt
    • Polish: opyt (obsolete)
  • Old Slovak: opyt
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wopyt

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obpytъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 49
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́пыт”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress