# степъ
## Old Ruthenian
### Alternative forms

* степь (stepʹ)

### Etymology

First attested in the the 17th century, and also in 1690. Origin uncertain. Compare Russian степь (stepʹ), which is from Middle Russian степь (stepʹ), attested in 1618.
* From Old East Slavic *сътепь (*sŭtepĭ), from Proto-Slavic *sъtepь (“knock down”), from *sъ(n) + *teti (“to beat”) + *-ь with the original meaning “place with felled trees (meadow, glade, clearing)” or “trampled place”.

### Noun

степъ • (step) m
* steppe (flat grassy plain)
    степъ дикїй ― step dikij ― wild steppe
* land area (mainly for haymaking)

#### Derived terms

* степный (stepnyj)
* степовый (stepovyj)
* степокъ m (stepok)

#### Descendants

* Ukrainian: степ (step); сте́па f (stépa) (dialectal)
** → Belarusian: стэп (step); сцеп (scjep), сьцеп (sʹcjep), степ (stjep) (dialectal)
** → Czech: step
** → Polish: step
** →? Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: сте̏па f
    Latin script: stȅpa f
*** →? Macedonian: степа f (stepa)
** → Slovak: step
** →? Slovene: stẹ́pa f
** →? Carpathian Rusyn: степ (step)

### References

* Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “степ”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 409
* Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2008), “стэп”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 12 (свабо́да – стэ́сам), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 365
* Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2010), “сцеп”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 13 (су- – трапка́ч), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 93
* Preobrazhensky, A. G. (1914–1916) “степь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (П – С), numbers 10–14, Moscow: G. Lissner & D. Sobko Publishing House, page 382
* Vasmer, Max (1972) “степь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 755
* Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “степь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 201
* Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “степь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 403
* Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “степь”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 379
* Králik, Ľubor (2016) “step”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 555
* Rejzek, Jiří (2001) “step”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 1st edition, Voznice: LEDA, →ISBN, page 601
* Snoj, Marko (2016) “stẹ́pa”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
* Skok, Petar (1973) “stepa”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 333

### Further reading

* Dydyk-Meush, H. M., Slobodzianyk, O. Z. (2015) “степъ (степь)”, in Українські краєвиди XVI–XVIII ст. [Ukrainian landscapes of 16ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), Lviv: Kolo, →ISBN, page 312