Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/babonъ

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 forms

• *babunъ m
• *babona f

Etymology

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Noun

*babonъ m

1. superstition
2. superstitious person

Declension

Declension of *babonъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*babonъ	*babona	*baboni
genitive	*babona	*babonu	*babonъ
dative	*babonu	*babonoma	*babonomъ
accusative	*babonъ	*babona	*babony
instrumental	*babonъmь, *babonomь*	*babonoma	*babony
locative	*baboně	*babonu	*baboněxъ
vocative	*babone	*babona	*baboni

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

Derived terms

• *baboniti, *babuniti

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: бабуны (babuny) (Russian), бабуни (babuni) (Serbian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бабу́ни pl (babúni), бабу́ны pl (babúny)
    • Ukrainian: бабо́ни (babóny) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: бабун (babun)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̀буна

    Latin script: bàbuna

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: baboněk
  • Kashubian: zababón, babóna
  • Polish: zabobon
  • Slovak: babona, bobona

• Other:
  • Hungarian: babona

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*babonъ, *babunъ, *babona”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 111
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бабуни”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress