Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerbę

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

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷrebʰ-, with the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals. Cognate with Ancient Greek βρέφος (bréphos).

Noun

*žērbę̀ n

foal

Declension

Declension of *žērbę̀ (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
Accusative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
Genitive	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tъ
Locative	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tьxъ
Dative	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tьmъ
Instrumental	*žērbę̀tьmь	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tȳ
Vocative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā

Derived terms

*žerbьcь (diminutive)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: жарабя́ (žarabjá)
- Russian: жеребя́ (žerebjá) (dial.)
⇒ Russian: жеребёнок (žerebjónok)
- Ukrainian: жереб'я́ (žerebʺjá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: жрѣбѧ (žrěbę)
- Bulgarian: жребе́ (žrebé), dial. ждря́бе (ždrjábe), ждребе́ (ždrebé), жеребе (žerebe)
- Macedonian: ждре́бе (ždrébe)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ждре̑бе, ждрије̑бе
  Latin: ždrȇbe, ždrijȇbe
- Slovene: žrebȅ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hřiebě
  - Czech: hříbě
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): říbě
- Old Polish: źrzebię
  - Polish: źrebię
- Silesian: zdrzybiã
- Slovak: žriebä
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: žrěbjo
  - Lower Sorbian: žrěbje

References

Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 554