Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerbъ

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

From Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch, cut out, incise”).

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian Asg. gīrbin (“number”).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I carve, write”) (< *gr̥bʰoh₂), Proto-Germanic *kerbaną.

Noun

*žerbъ m

1. something cut off, offcut
2. lot, fate

Declension

Declension of *žerbъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žerbъ	*žerba	*žerbi
genitive	*žerba	*žerbu	*žerbъ
dative	*žerbu	*žerboma	*žerbomъ
accusative	*žerbъ	*žerba	*žerby
instrumental	*žerbъmь, *žerbomь*	*žerboma	*žerby
locative	*žerbě	*žerbu	*žerběxъ
vocative	*žerbe	*žerba	*žerbi

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

See also

• *žerbьjь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: жэ́раб (žérab)
  • Ukrainian: же́реб (žéreb)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: жрѣбъ (žrěbŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰶⱃⱑⰱⱏ (žrěbŭ)

  • Macedonian: ждреб (ždreb)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: жре̑б, жри̏јеб

    Latin: žrȇb, žrȉjeb

  • Slovene: žrȇb (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hřěb
    • Czech: hřeb
  • Old Polish: źrzeb
  • Slovak: žreb

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жеребей”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “жребий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 306