Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫpъ

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-Balto-Slavic *pamp-. Cognate with Lithuanian pampti (“to swell”), Lithuanian pim̃palas (“penis”), Latvian pimpis (“penis”).

Noun

*pǫpъ m

1. bud, navel

Inflection

Declension of *pǫpъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pǫpъ	*pǫpa	*pǫpi
genitive	*pǫpa	*pǫpu	*pǫpъ
dative	*pǫpu	*pǫpoma	*pǫpomъ
accusative	*pǫpъ	*pǫpa	*pǫpy
instrumental	*pǫpъmь, *pǫpomь*	*pǫpoma	*pǫpy
locative	*pǫpě	*pǫpu	*pǫpěxъ
vocative	*pǫpe	*pǫpa	*pǫpi

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

Derived terms

• *pǫpъkъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пупъ (pupŭ)
    • Belarusian: пуп (pup)
    • Russian: пуп (pup)
    • Ukrainian: пуп (pup)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пѫпъ (pǫpŭ)
  • Bulgarian: пъп (pǎp), пъмп (pǎmp) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу̏п

    Latin script: pȕp

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): pȗp
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): pȕp
  • Slovene: pọ̑p (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: pãp
  • Old Polish: pąp, pęp
    • Polish: pęp (obsolete)
  • Polabian: pǫp
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pup
    • Upper Sorbian: pup

From *pǫpъkъ (*pǫpъ + *-ъkъ)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пупо́к (pupók)
  • Russian: пупо́к (pupók)
  • Ukrainian: пупо́к (pupók)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: папок (papok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу̏пак

    Latin script: pȕpak

  • Slovene: pọ̑pək (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: pãpk
  • Old Czech: pupek
    • Czech: pupek
  • Old Polish: pąpek, pępek
    • Polish: pępek
      • → Yiddish: פּעמפּיק (pempik)
    • Silesian: pympek
  • Slovak: pupok

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пуп”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress