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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫbota
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin (either Medieval Latin sabbatum or Vulgar Latin *sambatum), from Ancient Greek σάββᾱτον (sábbāton), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (šabbāṯ, “sabbath”).
Noun
*sǫbota f
- Saturday
Declension
Declension of *sǫbota (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *sǫbota | *sǫbotě | *sǫboty |
| Accusative | *sǫbotǫ | *sǫbotě | *sǫboty |
| Genitive | *sǫboty | *sǫbotu | *sǫbotъ |
| Locative | *sǫbotě | *sǫbotu | *sǫbotasъ, *sǫbotaxъ* |
| Dative | *sǫbotě | *sǫbotama | *sǫbotamъ |
| Instrumental | *sǫbotojǫ, *sǫbotǫ** | *sǫbotama | *sǫbotami |
| Vocative | *sǫboto | *sǫbotě | *sǫboty |
* -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).
See also
| Days of the week in Proto-Slavic · *dьne nedě̀ľę̇/tajegodьne (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *neděľa | *ponedělъkъ *ponedělьnikъ | *vъtorъkъ *vъtorьnikъ | *serda | *četvьrtъkъ | *pętъkъ | *sǫbota |
Descendants
The East and South Slavic languages have a form that derives from a nasal variant *sǫbota. The West Slavic forms have no nasal, *sobota.
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: субота (subota)
- Belarusian: субо́та (subóta)
- Russian: суббо́та (subbóta)
- Rusyn: субо́та (subóta)
- Ukrainian: субо́та (subóta)
- → Karelian: suovatta
- → Kildin Sami: сӯвведҍ (sūvv’ed’)
- Old East Slavic: субота (subota)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: сѫбота (sǫbota), собота (sobota)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⱘⰱⱁⱅⰰ (sǫbota), ⱄⱆⰱⱁⱅⰰ (subota)
- Bulgarian: съ́бота (sǎ́bota), съ́мбута (sǎ́mbuta) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: сабота (sabota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̀бота
- Latin: sùbota
- Slovene: sobọ́ta (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: sobota
- Kashubian: sobòta
- Polabian: sübötă
- Polish: sobota
- Silesian: sobota
- Slovak: sobota
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sobota
- Upper Sorbian: sobota
- Non-Slavic languages:
- → Hungarian: szombat
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “суббо́та”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress