bobă

Polabian

Alternative forms

• babă, bobo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

bobă f

1. midwife

   Synonym: bopkă

Related terms

nouns

• bopkă f (“midwife”)

 

References

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Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “babə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 22

• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “bobă//bobo”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 39
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Boba, Bobo”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 65