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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/arębina
Proto-Slavic
Alternative reconstructions
- *ěrębina, *erębina, *rębina
Etymology
*arębъ (“partridge”) + *-ina. The sense of rowan comes from the usage of the fruits to catch birds, also reflected in the botanical name (from aucupārī), German Vogelbeere etc.
Noun
*arębina f
- rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
- rowanberry
- partridge meat
Declension
Declension of *arębina (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *arębina | *arębině | *arębiny |
Accusative | *arębinǫ | *arębině | *arębiny |
Genitive | *arębiny | *arębinu | *arębinъ |
Locative | *arębině | *arębinu | *arębinasъ, *arębinaxъ* |
Dative | *arębině | *arębinama | *arębinamъ |
Instrumental | *arębinojǫ, *arębinǫ** | *arębinama | *arębinami |
Vocative | *arębino | *arębině | *arębiny |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).
** 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:
- Belarusian: рабі́на (rabína)
- Russian: ряби́на (rjabína) and alleged others
- →? Bulgarian: рябина (rjabina)
- Ukrainian: гороби́на (horobýna) – (standard), dialectal forms include ряби́на (rjabýna), ороби́на (orobýna), оря́бина (orjábyna)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јарѐбина, јарѐбика
- Latin: jarèbina, jarèbika
- Slovene: jerebína, jerebíka
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jeřabina
- Kashubian: jarzëbina, jarzbina, jerzbina
- Polish: jarzębina
- Slovak: jarabina
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: jeŕebina, heŕebina
- Upper Sorbian: wjerjebina
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*arębina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 73
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ряби́на”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress