Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/doba

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-Balto-Slavic *dabāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ-eh₂, from *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“to fashion, fit”). Cognate with Latvian daba (“manner, habit, character”), Lithuanian dabà (“nature, habit, character”).

Noun

*doba f

time

Inflection

Declension of *doba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*doba	*době	*doby
genitive	*doby	*dobu	*dobъ
dative	*době	*dobama	*dobamъ
accusative	*dobǫ	*době	*doby
instrumental	dobojǫ, dobǫ^**	*dobama	*dobami
locative	*době	*dobu	dobasъ, dobaxъ^*
vocative	*dobo	*době	*doby

^* -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).

Related terms

*dobrъ (“good”)
*dobъ (“good”)
*dobľь (“honest, noble”)
*dobiti

Derived terms

*nadoba
*dobь (“age”)
*sъdoba (“decoration”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: до́ба (dóba)
- Russian: до́ба (dóba) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: доба́ (dobá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: доба (doba)
- Bulgarian: до́ба (dóba) (obsolescent)
- Macedonian: доба (doba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: до̏ба
  
  Latin script: dȍba
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): dobȁ
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): dȍba
- Slovene: dóba
West Slavic:
- Czech: doba
- Kashubian: doba
- Polish: doba
- Slovak: doba
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: doba
  - Upper Sorbian: doba

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*doba”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*doba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 38
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “до́ба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress