K ETYMOLOGII PRASLOVANSKÉHO *SЪTЪ ‘PLÁSTEV, PLÁST MEDU’

• Authors: Vít Boček

Title variants

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On etymology of common Slavonic *sъtъ ‘honeycomb’

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Up to now, the etymology of Common-Slavonic *sъtъ ‘honeycomb’ is not explained sufficiently and it remains uncertain. The author of the paper discusses various existing explanations of the word, and proposes a new solution according to which the word belongs to the originally onomatopoeic root *sъp- ‘to hum, to drone’. This root is only a variant of a larger onomatopoeic set of forms that served to express different secondary meanings of the original meaning ‘to gasp, to pant, to breathe loudly, hard’ (*sop-, *sap-, *sip-, *sěp-, *sup-).

Keywords

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SLAVISTICS; COMMON SLAVONIC; ETYMOLOGY; HONEYCOMB

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36 - 39

Contributors

author

Vít Boček

• Etymologické oddělení Ústavu pro jazyk český AV ČR, Veveří 97, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic