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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golǫbъ

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

Back-formation from *gȍlǭbь (pigeon),[1][2] referring to the bird's neck plumage, i.e. “pigeon-colored”.

Adjective

*gȍlǫbъ[3][4]

  1. blue

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: гь́лъп (gʹ́lǎp, blue, dark blue) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: голу̀бијӣ (pigeon; dove-coloured)
      Latin script: golùbijī (pigeon; dove-coloured)
    • Slovene: golobji
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golǫbъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 217

References

  1. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “голубой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  2. Szemerényi, Oswald (1967) “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, pages 20–21
  3. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*golǫbъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 175:adj. o ‘blue’
  4. Olander, Thomas (2001) “golǫbъ golǫba golǫbo”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c blå (PR 138)
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