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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerbъ

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 *gerbʰ- (“to scratch, cut out, incise”).

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian Asg. gīrbin (“number”).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I carve, write”) (< *gr̥bʰoh₂), Proto-Germanic *kerbaną.

Noun

*žerbъ m

  1. something cut off, offcut
  2. lot, fate

Declension
Declension of *žerbъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *žerbъ *žerba *žerbi
genitive *žerba *žerbu *žerbъ
dative *žerbu *žerboma *žerbomъ
accusative *žerbъ *žerba *žerby
instrumental *žerbъmь, *žerbomь* *žerboma *žerby
locative *žerbě *žerbu *žerběxъ
vocative *žerbe *žerba *žerbi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

See also

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: жэ́раб (žérab)
    • Ukrainian: же́реб (žéreb)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: жрѣбъ (žrěbŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰶⱃⱑⰱⱏ (žrěbŭ)
    • Macedonian: ждреб (ždreb)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: жре̑б, жри̏јеб
      Latin: žrȇb, žrȉjeb
    • Slovene: žrȇb (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 558
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жеребей”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “жребий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 306
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