Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kopriva

Etymology
By surface, probably from the original sense steaming, scalding found in the root , , because of the burning feel on the human skin on touch of this plant. For similar semantic development, compare dial. (from ), (from ), 🇨🇬 from, 🇨🇬 from. Unlikely from the sense aroma applied in *koprъ and attested in the related lemmas 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, since nettle does not have any particular smell.

A secondary reason of the relation to may be the use of both as a food supplement.

The form  to which some forms point is modelled after conceiving the crop’s conspicuous manner of distribution.

Noun

 * 1)  stinging nettle

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * , but dialectally also
 * , but dialectally also
 * South Slavic:
 * , dial.
 * , formerly dialectally also
 * West Slavic:
 * Sorbian:
 * , dial.
 * , formerly dialectally also
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 * Sorbian:
 * , formerly dialectally also
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