Talk:chłop
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[edit]PSl. *xolpъ ‘boy, servant’ (Slov. hlâpec, OCS xlapъ, Russ. xolóp, Pol. chłop, ESSJa 8, 62-3). The same root is attested in Lith. šel͂pti ‘help’ (Smoczyński 629), if the Slavic word is not borrowed from Germanic (Eng. help, Germ. helfen, etc., cf. Germ. dial. (Lower Rhine) halfa ʻsmall landholderʼ). PSl. *xolpъ is derivable from *skolpo- < *sk’olpo- (with s-mobile)
Ranko Matasović: Proto-Indo-European *sk- in Slavic Raspr. Inst. hrvat. jez. jezikosl., knj. 37/2 (2011.), str. 467–478