Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěpeněti

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

From *cěpenъ +‎ *-ěti.

Verb

*cěpeněti[1]

  1. to become rigid, to freeze

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: цепене́ть (cepenétʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ціпені́ти (cipeníty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: цепенѐя (cepenèja)
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: cjepjeniti
    • Slovene: cepenéti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: cepenět; cepenít (dialectal)

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cěpeněti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 184