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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bǫba
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
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Noun
*bǫba f
- larva
- bug (in general)
Inflection
Declension of *bǫba (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *bǫba | *bǫbě | *bǫby |
Accusative | *bǫbǫ | *bǫbě | *bǫby |
Genitive | *bǫby | *bǫbu | *bǫbъ |
Locative | *bǫbě | *bǫbu | *bǫbasъ, *bǫbaxъ* |
Dative | *bǫbě | *bǫbama | *bǫbamъ |
Instrumental | *bǫbojǫ, *bǫbǫ** | *bǫbama | *bǫbami |
Vocative | *bǫbo | *bǫbě | *bǫby |
* -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: бу́ба (búba)
- Russian: бу́ба (búba)
- Ukrainian: бу́ба (búba)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бу́ба (búba)
- Macedonian: буба (buba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу̏ба
- Latin: bȕba
- West Slavic:
- Czech: buba
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bǫba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 229-230
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бу́ба”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress