Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zǫbrъ

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

*zǫbrъ

Etymology

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According to Vasmer, possibly related to *zǫbъ.

Noun

*zǫbrъ m

1. European bison, wisent (Bison bonasus)

Inflection

Declension of *zǫbrъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zǫbrъ	*zǫbra	*zǫbri
genitive	*zǫbra	*zǫbru	*zǫbrъ
dative	*zǫbru	*zǫbroma	*zǫbromъ
accusative	*zǫbrъ	*zǫbra	*zǫbry
instrumental	*zǫbrъmь, *zǫbromь*	*zǫbroma	*zǫbry
locative	*zǫbrě	*zǫbru	*zǫbrěxъ
vocative	*zǫbre	*zǫbra	*zǫbri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *зубръ (*zubrŭ), зубрь (zubrĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ); зоубръ (zubr), зꙋбръ (zubr), зꙋбрь (zubrʹ)
      • Belarusian: зубр (zubr); зу́бар (zúbar) (Taraškievica orthography)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: зубор (zubor)
      • Ukrainian: зубр (zubr); зу́бір (zúbir) (dialectal)
      • → Old Polish: zubr
        • Polish: żubr
          • → Old Ruthenian: жубръ (žubr) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ)
      • Russian: зубр (zubr); зубрь (zubrʹ) (dialectal)
        • → Bulgarian: зу́бър (zúbǎr)
        • → Kildin Sami: зубр (zubr)
      • ⇒ Middle Russian: изубръ (izubr), изубрь (izubrʹ) (17ᵗʰ c.)
        • Russian: изу́бр (izúbr) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: зѫбръ (zǫbrŭ)

    • → Byzantine Greek: ζόμβρος (zómbros), ζοῦμβρος (zoûmbros)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зу̏бар, зу̀бāр

    Latin script: zȕbar, zùbār

  • Slovene: zǫ̑ber (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zubr
  • Kashubian: Zębrzе
  • Old Polish: ząbr, ząbrz, zubr
    • Polish: żubr
  • Slovak: zubr
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: žubr, zubr

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зубр”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress