Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oba

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-Balto-Slavic *abā, from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)-bʰoh₁, where the initial part is an old deictic pronoun or particle, reinforcing the meaning “two, both” of the second part. Cognate with Latvian abi, Lithuanian abu (“both”), Old Prussian abāi, Proto-Germanic *bai, Sanskrit उभय (ubhaya).^[1]

Determiner

*oba^[2]

both

Declension

Declension of *oba (hard pronominal)

Dual	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*oba	*obě	*obě
Accusative	*oba	*obě	*obě
Genitive	*oboju	*oboju	*oboju
Locative	*oboju	*oboju	*oboju
Dative	*oběma	*oběma	*oběma
Instrumental	*oběma	*oběma	*oběma

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: оба (oba)
  - Old Ruthenian: о́ба (óba)
    - Belarusian: во́ба (vóba) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: о́ба (óba)
    - Ukrainian: оба́ (obá) (dialectal)
  - Russian: о́ба (óba)
- Old Novgorodian: оба (oba)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: оба (oba)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱁⰱⰰ (oba)
  - Bulgarian: о́ба (óba)
  - Macedonian: оба (oba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: о̏ба
  
  Latin script: ȍba
- Slovene: obȃ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: oba
  - Czech: oba
- Old Polish: oba
  - Masurian: ôba
  - Polish: oba
  - Silesian: ôba
- Old Slovak: oba
  - Slovak: oba
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: òba
  - Slovincian: wôba

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 46
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*oba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 85