робѧ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From a metathesised form of Proto-Slavic *orbę. Cognate with Old Polish robię.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbɛ̃/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbʲa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbʲa/
  • Hyphenation: ро‧бѧ

Noun

робѧ (robę) n

  1. child

Declension

Descendants

  • Russian: ребя́та (rebjáta) (from the plural)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “робѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 125
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