< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orba
Proto-Slavic
Noun
*orba f[1]
- feminine of *orbъ: female servant, female slave
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Note that the descendants exhibit a metathesis of the liquid r (*or- > ro-; ra-):
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: роба (roba)
- Old Ruthenian: ро́ба (róba)
- Belarusian: ро́ба (róba) (obsolete)
- Ukrainian: ро́ба (róba, “a hardworking woman”)
- Old Ruthenian: ро́ба (róba)
- Old Novgorodian: роба (roba)
- Old East Slavic: роба (roba)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: раба (raba)
- Glagolitic: ⱃⰰⰱⰰ (raba)
- → Old East Slavic: раба (raba)
- Old Ruthenian: раба́ (rabá)
- Belarusian: раба́ (rabá)
- Ukrainian: раба́ (rabá)
- Russian: раба́ (rabá)
- Old Ruthenian: раба́ (rabá)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: roba (“wife”)
- Old Polish: roba (“female servant or slave, wife, disorderly woman, sow”)
- Polish: roba (dialectal or obsolete)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbъ/*orba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 131
- Савва Михайлович (2012), “22 Древнерусских глаголических надписи-граффити XI–XII веков из Новгорода” in Slovo, vol. 62, pp. 63-99.
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “?orba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b slavinde (PR 135)”