Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korbъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korbъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Cognate with Lithuanian kar̃bas (“basket”) and Latvian kar̂ba (“basket”). Possibly an early borrowing from Germanic, in turn a borrowing from Latin: compare Latin corbis, Proto-West Germanic *korb. Vasmer prefers the native origin (for phonetic reasons).

Noun

*kȏrbъ m[1][2]

1. basket

Inflection

Declension of *kȏrbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*kȏrbъ	*kȏrba	*kȏrbi
Accusative	*kȏrbъ	*kȏrba	*kȏrby
Genitive	*kȏrba	*korbù	*kõrbъ
Locative	*kȏrbě	*korbù	*korbě̃xъ
Dative	*kȏrbu	*korbomà	*korbòmъ
Instrumental	*kȏrbъmь, *kȏrbomь*	*korbomà	*korbý
Vocative	*korbe	*kȏrba	*kȏrbi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

• *korba

Derived terms

• *korbъka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: коробъ (korobŭ)
    • Belarusian: каро́ба (karóba)
    • Russian: ко́роб (kórob), ко́робъ (kórob)
      • → Kildin Sami: ко̄ррэб (kōrreb, “box or basket made of bast”)
      • → Kazakh: қорап (qorap, “box”)
    • Ukrainian: ко́роб (kórob)
• South Slavic:
  • → Slovene: kraba (learned) (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: krabice
  • Polish: kroba f (dialectal), krobia f[3]
    • ⇒ Polish: króbka f[4]
  • ⇒ Slovak: krabica

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ко́роб”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*korbъ; *korba”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234: “m. o; f. ā ‘basket’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “korbъ korba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (NA 98; PR 137); d (RPT) kurv”
3. Słownik warszawski (p. 568)
4. Słownik warszawski (p. 565)