Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbъ

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphaned”), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old Armenian որբ (orb, “orphan; orphaned”) and Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha, “child; small”). Per Derksen, probably also cognate with Proto-Germanic *arbaidiz.

Noun edit

*õrbъ m^[1]^[2]^[3]

servant, slave

Declension edit

Declension of *õrbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*õrbъ	*ōrbà	*ōrbì
genitive	*ōrbà	*ōrbù	*õrbъ
dative	*ōrbù	*ōrbòma	*ōrbòmъ
accusative	*õrbъ	*ōrbà	*ōrbỳ
instrumental	ōrbъ̀mь, ōrbòmь^*	*ōrbòma	*õrby
locative	*ōrbě̀	*ōrbù	*õrběxъ
vocative	*orbe	*ōrbà	*ōrbì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

*orbę

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: робъ (robŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: робъ (rob)
    - Ukrainian: роб (rob)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: рабъ (rabŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰱⱏ (rabŭ)
  - → Old East Slavic: рабъ (rabŭ) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Old Novgorodian:
    Old Cyrillic script: рабе (rabe)
    
    Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰱⰵ (rabe)
- Bulgarian: раб (rab)
- Macedonian: раб (rab)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ра̏б
  
  Latin script: rȁb
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: rob
  - Czech: rob
- Slovak: (dialectal) rob
- → Bulgarian: роб (rob)
- → Macedonian: роб (rob)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: роб
  
  Latin script: rob
- → Slovene: rob

Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: rab
  - → Old Slovak: rab
    - Slovak: rab
- → Romanian: rob

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*orbъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 373: “m. o ‘servant, slave’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “orbъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b? slave (PR 134)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “rọ̑b”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*orbъ̏”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*orbъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 373: “m. o ‘servant, slave’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “orbъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b? slave (PR 134)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016) “rọ̑b”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*orbъ̏”

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