Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vapa

Etymology 1
Disputed:
 * Considered a loanword by early scholars, possibly borrowed from 🇨🇬 with prothetic *v- due to word-initial sandhi (similar to < ). Ultimately from, whence native 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, possibly also.
 * More likely inherited (Trautmann, Vasmer), cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, perhaps from ~ . Further akin to 🇨🇬 and probably 🇨🇬 (attested predominantly in  wappuwaš). Zero grade froms attested in dialectal Bulgarian and in toponyms - cf. 🇨🇬 < . In view of the Anatolian data, PIE origin could be from tentative  (per Pokorny), whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Mallory & Adams reconstruct instead  for the Indo-Aryan data (formally incompatible with Hittite). On the later, Witczak suggests possible fossilized compound  originally conveying contrast: off + flowing water → stagnant water.

In either case, may have been a functional counterpart (originally, of common gender) to substantive  (originally, neuter).

Noun

 * 1)  body of water (pool, pond, lake), standing water

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * South Slavic:

Etymology 2
Collective of. Possibly related to Etymology 1 (Preobražensky, Brückner, Snoj).

Descendants

 * East Slavic: