bobă
Polabian
Alternative forms
- babă, bobo
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.
Noun
bobă f
- midwife
- Synonym: bopkă
Related terms
nouns
- bopkă f (“midwife”)
References
- Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński; Kazimierz Polański (1962), “babə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 1: A — Ďüzd, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 22
- Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “bobă//bobo”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 39
- Reinhold Olesch (1962), “Boba, Bobo”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 65