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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/arębina

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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

*arębъ (“partridge”) +‎ *-ina. The sense of rowan comes from the usage of the fruits to catch birds, also reflected in the botanical name (from aucupārī), German Vogelbeere etc.

Noun

*arębina f

  1. rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
  2. rowanberry
  3. partridge meat

Declension
Declension of *arębina (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *arębina *arębině *arębiny
genitive *arębiny *arębinu *arębinъ
dative *arębině *arębinama *arębinamъ
accusative *arębinǫ *arębině *arębiny
instrumental *arębinojǫ, *arębinǫ** *arębinama *arębinami
locative *arębině *arębinu *arębinasъ, *arębinaxъ*
vocative *arębino *arębině *arębiny
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: рабі́на (rabína)
    • Russian: ряби́на (rjabína) and alleged others
    • Ukrainian: гороби́на (horobýna) – (standard), dialectal forms include ряби́на (rjabýna), ороби́на (orobýna), оря́бина (orjábyna)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јарѐбина, јарѐбика
      Latin script: jarèbina, jarèbika
    • Slovene: jerebína, jerebíka
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: jeřabina
    • Kashubian: jarzëbina, jarzbina, jerzbina
    • Polish: jarzębina
    • Slovak: jarabina
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: jeŕebina, heŕebina
      • Upper Sorbian: wjerjebina

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*arębina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 73
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ряби́на”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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