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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/droba
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Equivalent to *drobъ (“chunk; intestine”) + *-a, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to fracture”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *drabaz (“dregs”). Further akin to Lithuanian drebėti (“to quiver, to tremble”), Latvian drebêt (“to quiver”).[1]
Noun
*drobà f[2]
Declension
Declension of *droba (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *droba | *drobě | *droby |
genitive | *droby | *drobu | *drobъ |
dative | *drobě | *drobama | *drobamъ |
accusative | *drobǫ | *drobě | *droby |
instrumental | *drobojǫ, *drobǫ** | *drobama | *drobami |
locative | *drobě | *drobu | *drobasъ, *drobaxъ* |
vocative | *drobo | *drobě | *droby |
* -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).
** 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).
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: дроба́ (drobá), dial. дреба́ (drebá)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: дроба́ (drobá, “farce, stuffing”) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: дро́ба (“crumbs of bread soaked into milk”)
- Latin script: dróba (“crumbs of bread soaked into milk”)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дроба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*droba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 117
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “drebėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 137
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*droba, *drobìna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 117
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