serbs

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Србин (Srbin), itself from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to protect, watch over”); akin to Latin servō (“I guard, I protect”), Old English searu (“weapons, armor”), Lithuanian sárgas (“watchman”), Latvian sargs (“watchman”), Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haraⁱti), 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (ha^uruuaⁱti, “he guards”).^[1]

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serbs m (1st declension, feminine form: serbiete)

Declension of serbs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	serbs	serbi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	serbu	serbus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	serba	serbu
dative (datīvs)	serbam	serbiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	serbu	serbiem
locative (lokatīvs)	serbā	serbos
vocative (vokatīvs)	serb	serbi

^ Mallory, J.P., and D.Q. Adams. 1997. "Protect". The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London: Fitzroy and Dearborn.

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