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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glyba
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From an unattested *glъti (“to amass, to clew”) + *-ьba, continuing Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to conglomerate, to gather into a mass”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *klewô (“ball”), Latin glūs (“glue”), Lithuanian glùmas (“clod, trunk”).
Parallel to Proto-Slavic *gliba (“mud, ooze”) from *gley- (“to stick, to glue”).
Noun
*glỳba f[1]
- lump, clump
Declension
Declension of *glỳba (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *glỳba | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
| Accusative | *glỳbǫ | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
| Genitive | *glỳby | *glỳbu | *glỳbъ |
| Locative | *glỳbě | *glỳbu | *glỳbasъ, *glỳbaxъ* |
| Dative | *glỳbě | *glỳbama | *glỳbamъ |
| Instrumental | *glỳbojǫ, *glỳbǭ** | *glỳbama | *glỳbamī |
| Vocative | *glỳbo | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
* -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).
Related terms
- *gluma (“mockery”)
- *gluda (“mud”)
- *gluďь (“gob”)
- *gluzdъ (“curve, ankle”)
- *glyza (“clod”)
Derived terms
- *glybina (“void”)
- *glybokъ (“formless, deep”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: глы́ба (hlýba)
- Russian: глы́ба (glýba)
- Ukrainian: гли́ба (hlýba)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: глюба (gljuba, “mud”) (archaic, dialectal)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hlyba
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “глы́ба”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glyba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 160
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “глюза”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 254
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “glyba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (RPT 109)”