Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lubъ

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-ó-s, from *lewbʰ- (“to peel, cut off, harm”).

Cognate with Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel, to shell”), lúobas (“bast”), Latvian luba (“narrow strip of wood”), luobs (“peel”), Latin liber (“book, inner bark of a tree”), Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”).^[1]

Noun

*lubъ m

bast (of trees)

Declension

Declension of *lubъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lubъ	*luba	*lubi
genitive	*luba	*lubu	*lubъ
dative	*lubu	*luboma	*lubomъ
accusative	*lubъ	*luba	*luby
instrumental	lubъmь, lubomь^*	*luboma	*luby
locative	*lubě	*lubu	*luběxъ
vocative	*lube	*luba	*lubi

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: луб (lub)
- Russian: луб (lub)
- Ukrainian: луб (lub)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: луб (lub) (obsolete)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: луб
  
  Latin script: lub
- Slovene: lȗb (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: lub
- Slovak: lub
- Polish: łub (obsolete)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: łub
  - Lower Sorbian: łub

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “luobas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 296