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

• *ěrębina, *erębina, *rębina

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
    • →? Bulgarian: рябина (rjabina)
  • 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