Where does “цепити” come from?

цепити (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic *cěpiti — to hang, to hook.

цепити (Serbo-Croatian): to graft (to insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree)

Definitions

  1. to graft (to insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree)

Ancestry of “цепити”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic*cěpitito hang, to hook
Every word from Proto-Slavic *cěpiti
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