Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/napojь

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

Deverbal from *napojiti (“to give a drink”).

Noun

*napojь m

1. drink, beverage

   Synonyms: *pȋvo, *napitъkъ, *pitьje

Declension

Declension of *napojь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*napojь	*napoja	*napoji
genitive	*napoja	*napoju	*napojь
dative	*napoju	*napojema	*napojemъ
accusative	*napojь	*napoja	*napoję̇
instrumental	*napojьmь, *napojemь*	*napojema	*napoji
locative	*napoji	*napoju	*napojixъ
vocative	*napoju	*napoja	*napoji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *напои (*napoi)
    • Old Ruthenian: напой (napoj)
      • Belarusian: напо́й (napój)
      • Ukrainian: напі́й (napíj)
    • Russian: напо́й (napój)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian: напой (napoj) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: напој

    Latin script: napoj

  • Slovene: napoj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: nápoj
  • Kashubian: napój
  • Old Polish: napój
    • Polish: napój
    • Silesian: napōj
  • Slovak: napój
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: napoj
    • Upper Sorbian: napoj

Further reading

• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “напо́й”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka