sabaia

sabaia

Latin

Alternative forms

• sabaium

Etymology

From Illyrian, probably originally from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”), whence German Saft, English sap, and Sanskrit सबर् (sabar).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈbaj.ja/

Noun

sabaia f (genitive sabaiae); first declension

1. A kind of Illyrian beer, made out of barley or wheat.

   Est autem sabaia ex ordeo vel frumento in liquorem conversus paupertinus in Illyrico potus.[2]

   Sabaia is a wretched drink made in Illyria out of barley or wheat.

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular
Nominative	sabaia
Genitive	sabaiae
Dative	sabaiae
Accusative	sabaiam
Ablative	sabaiā
Vocative	sabaia

Derived terms

• sabaiārius (“beer-drinker; drinker of sabaia”)[2]

References

1. Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 465
2. Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 26, 8.2