цапъ

Old Ruthenian[edit]

First attested in the 16th century. Etymology unclear:

Borrowed from Romanian țap, further origin unclear.^[1]^[2] Probably related to Romance languages (compare Italian zappo, dialectal tsappu), ultimately from Latin caper, from Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.^[3]^[4] Compare Albanian cjap.
Less likely inherited from Proto-Slavic *capъ (“goat”), further possibly from Romance languages and Latin as above.^[3]^[4]

Slavic cognates include Polish cap (“ram; goat”), Slovak cap (“goat”), dialectal Czech cap, cáp (“goat”), dialectal Macedonian цап (cap, “goat”), Serbo-Croatian ца̏п / cȁp (“bearded man nickname”), Slovene càp (“uncastrated goat”).

цапъ • (cap) m animal

^ Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “цап”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 1097: “since the XVI c.”
^ Vasmer, Max (1973) “цап”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 288
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*capъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 172
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “цап”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 227

Dezső, László (1996) “цапъ”, in Деловая письменность русинов в XVII–XVIII вв. [Rusyn Business Writing in the 17ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ c.], Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei György Tanárképző Főiskola; Ukrán és Ruszin Filológiai Tanszék, page 177
Kotliarevsky, Ivan (1798) “цапъ”, in Собраніе Малороссійскихъ словъ, содержащихся въ Энеидѣ [Collection of Ukrainian words contained in the Eneida]‎^[1] (in Ukrainian), Saint Petersburg: Dependent of M. Parpura, page 22