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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dorbъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dorbʰo-.
Cognate with Sanskrit दर्भ (darbha, “tuft/bunch of grass”), दृभति (dṛbhati, “to twist, weave, spin”), Old High German zerben (“to spin, rotate”), zurba (“sod, greensward”).
Noun
*dorbъ m
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Declension
Declension of *dȏrbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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Nominative | *dȏrbъ | *dȏrba | *dȏrbi |
Accusative | *dȏrbъ | *dȏrba | *dȏrby |
Genitive | *dȏrba | *dorbù | *dõrbъ |
Locative | *dȏrbě | *dorbù | *dorbě̃xъ |
Dative | *dȏrbu | *dorbomà | *dorbòmъ |
Instrumental | *dȏrbъmь, *dȏrbomь* | *dorbomà | *dorbý |
Vocative | *dorbe | *dȏrba | *dȏrbi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *derbati / *derbiti
- *derti
- *dorpelьje
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: удоробь (udorobĭ) (Russian)
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: до́роб (dórob), дарабо́к (darabók), доро́бка (doróbka), даро́бка (daróbka)
- Russian: до́роб (dórob), дарабо́к (darabók), до́робья (dórobʹja)
- Ukrainian: дороба́йло (dorobájlo)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дороб”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dorbъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 74