Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/potopъ

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 *potopìti (“to submerge, to inundate”).

Noun

*potopъ m

1. deluge, flood

Declension

Declension of *potopъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*potopъ	*potopa	*potopi
genitive	*potopa	*potopu	*potopъ
dative	*potopu	*potopoma	*potopomъ
accusative	*potopъ	*potopa	*potopy
instrumental	*potopъmь, *potopomь*	*potopoma	*potopy
locative	*potopě	*potopu	*potopěxъ
vocative	*potope	*potopa	*potopi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic
  • Old East Slavic: потопъ (potopŭ)
    • Belarusian: пато́п (patóp)
    • Russian: пото́п (potóp)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: пото́па (potópa)
    • Ukrainian: пото́п (potóp)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: потопъ (potopŭ)

    • → Romanian: potop
  • Bulgarian: потоп (potop)
  • Macedonian: потоп (potop)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀топ

    Latin script: pòtop

  • Slovene: potòp (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: potopa f
  • Polish: potop
  • Slovak: potopa f

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “потоп”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 557