Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lupežь

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

By surface analysis, *lupiti +‎ *-ežь.^[1]

Noun

*lupežь f

(crime) robbery

Declension

Declension of *lupežь (i-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lupežь	*lupeži	*lupeži
genitive	*lupeži	lupežьju, lupežu^*	lupežьjь, lupeži^*
dative	*lupeži	*lupežьma	*lupežьmъ
accusative	*lupežь	*lupeži	*lupeži
instrumental	lupežьjǫ, lupežǫ^*	*lupežьma	*lupežьmi
locative	*lupeži	lupežьju, lupežu^*	*lupežьxъ
vocative	*lupeži	*lupeži	*lupeži

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лоупежь (lupežĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: лупе́жъ (lupéž)
    - Belarusian: лупе́ш (lupjéš) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: лупе́ж (lupéž)
    - Ukrainian: лупі́ж (lupíž) (dialectal)
  - Russian: лупёж (lupjóž) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: лу́пеж
  
  Latin script: lúpež
- Slovene: lupež (“robber”) (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: lúpež
  - Czech: loupež
- Old Polish: łupież
  - Polish: łupież (archaic)
- Old Slovak: lúpež
  - Slovak: lúpež

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lupežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 181

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lupežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 181

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