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 edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

*žērbę̀ n

foal

Declension edit

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
genitive	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tъ
dative	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tьmъ
accusative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
instrumental	*žērbę̀tьmь	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tȳ
locative	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tьxъ
vocative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā

Derived terms edit

*žerbьcь (diminutive)

Descendants edit

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 script: 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 edit

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)‎^[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 554