Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъlpь

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

Alternative forms

• *kъlpъ

Etymology

See *gъlbь. Cognate with Old Prussian gulbis (“swan”), Lithuanian gulbìs (“swan”), Latvian gùlbis (“swan”). Also compare with Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”) (whence also *golǫbь), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”).

Noun

*kъlpь m

1. bill, beak, neb

   Synonyms: *kľunъ, *kľuvъ

2. type of bird:

   → spoonbill (in East Slavic)

   → swan (in West Slavic)

   Synonym: *olbǫdь

Derived terms

• *kъlpikъ m, *kъlpica f (“spoonbill”) (in East Slavic)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: колпь (kolpĭ)
    • Russian: колпь (kolpʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: Кълпица (Kǎlpica) (toponym)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)

    Cyrillic script: ку̑п, ку̑ф

    Latin script: kȗp, kȗf

• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: kôłp, kôłpsz, czôłp
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kołp

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “gulbis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 192
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъlpъ/*kъlpь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 189