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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/drapati

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

Commonly considered an extension of *dьrati (to tear, to flay) + *-pati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *derH- (to tear). Likely akin to Ancient Greek δρώπτω (drṓptō, to gaze, to look), Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépō, to reap, to harvest) and Sanskrit दर्पण (darpaṇa, mirror). Possibly also related to Proto-Germanic *trabō (fringe).

Verb

*drāpàti impf[1]

  1. to scratch, to scrabble
  2. to hightail, to flee (under pressure)
  3. (by extension) to strive for, to struggle

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *drasati (to rip apart)
  • *draskati (to scrape, to draw)
  • *drapežь (plunder, robbery)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: дра́паць (drápacʹ)
    • Russian: дра́пать (drápatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: дра́пати (drápaty), дря́пати (drjápaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: дра́пам (drápam)
    • Macedonian: дра́па (drápa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: дра́пати
      Latin script: drápati
    • Slovene: drápati
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “драпать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*drapati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 101
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “драпам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 421

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*drāpàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 115:v. ‘scratch’
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