Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dupa

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.

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *daupāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowp-eh₂, from *dʰewp-, alternative form of *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Doublet of *ďupa. Alternatively a Germanic borrowing.

Compare Lithuanian daubà (“ravine, hole, burrow”), Proto-Germanic *deupaz (> Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐍃 (diups, “deep”))

*dupa f^[1]

1. hole

   Synonym: *ama

• *dupę

• *dьbrь (“valley, ravine”)
• *dъno (“bottom”)
• *ďupa (“hole”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *дупа (*dupa)
    • Old Ruthenian: ду́па (dúpa)
      • Belarusian: ду́па (dúpa)
      • Ukrainian: ду́па (dúpa)
    • Russian: ду́па (dúpa), дуп m (dup)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ду́пка (dúpka), дупе n (dupe), дуп m (dup)
  • Macedonian: дупка (dupka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ду̏пка, ду̏пе n

    Latin: dȕpka, dȕpe n

  • Slovene: dúpa (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dúpa, dúpě
    • Czech: doupa, dupa, doupě n
  • Kashubian: dëpka, dupa
  • Polish: dupa
  • Slovak: dúpa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dupa
    • Lower Sorbian: dupa, duṕe n

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дупло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dupa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 157