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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skobľь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to carve, to scrape”) + *-jь, related to Lithuanian skabýti (“to pluck, to delve”), skõbti (“to carve onto wood”), Latvian skabît (“to hew off”). Further akin with Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φος (skáphos, “hull of a ship”), σκάφη (skáphē, “bowl, tube”), Latin scobis (“wood chip”).
In other Indo-European languages, the same root yielded the meaning “to scratch, to scrub”, as in Latin scabō, Proto-Germanic *skabaną.
Possibly of the same origin as Proto-Slavic *skobà (“shackle, clasp”).
Noun
*skȍbľь m[1]
- crafting or carving tool (spokeshave, chisel, gouge)
Alternative forms
- *skobľa f (in West, South-West Slavic)
- *skobьľь, *skobeľь (reanalyzed at a later time in some descendants)
Inflection
Declension of *skobľь (soft o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *skobľь | *skobľa | *skobľi |
| Accusative | *skobľь | *skobľa | *skobľę̇ |
| Genitive | *skobľa | *skobľu | *skobľь |
| Locative | *skobľi | *skobľu | *skobľixъ |
| Dative | *skobľu | *skobľema | *skobľemъ |
| Instrumental | *skobľьmь, *skobľemь* | *skobľema | *skobľi |
| Vocative | *skobľu | *skobľa | *skobľi |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *skobľiti, *skobľati (“to carve, to delve with a tool”)
- *skobľьcь, *skobľičь (diminutive)
Related terms
- *ščebьľь, *ščebьňь (“gravel”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: скобль (skoblĭ)
- Belarusian: ско́бля (skóblja)
- Russian: ско́бель (skóbelʹ)
- Ukrainian: ско́бель (skóbelʹ), скобе́лка (skobélka)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ско́бел (skóbel) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ско̏бља
- Latin: skȍblja
- Slovene: skọ̄bəlj, skọ̑blja (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: skoble, škoble
- Polish: skobla, skobel
- Slovak: skobľa
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: scoabă (“chisel, adze”)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скобель”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (2002), “скобел”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 760
- “skabyti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “skobelj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *skòbl'ь (in *skòbl'a)”