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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orba

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

Noun

*orba f[1]

  1. feminine of *orbъ: female servant, female slave

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Note that the descendants exhibit a metathesis of the liquid r (*or- > ro-; ra-):

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: роба (roba)
    • Old Novgorodian: роба (roba)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: roba (“wife”) (dialectal)
    • Old Polish: roba (“female servant or slave, wife, disorderly woman, sow”)
      • Polish: roba (dialectal or obsolete)

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbъ/*orba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 131
  • Савва Михайлович (2012), “22 Древнерусских глаголических надписи-граффити XI–XII веков из Новгорода” in Slovo, vol. 62, pp. 63-99.

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001) “?orba”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b slavinde (PR 135)”
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