Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glǫbь

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

Perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ-. Compare *glǫbokъ (“deep”).

Noun

*glǫbь f

1. depth

Declension

Declension of *glǫbь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glǫbь	*glǫbi	*glǫbi
genitive	*glǫbi	*glǫbьju, *glǫbľu*	*glǫbьjь, *glǫbi*
dative	*glǫbi	*glǫbьma	*glǫbьmъ
accusative	*glǫbь	*glǫbi	*glǫbi
instrumental	*glǫbьjǫ, *glǫbľǫ*	*glǫbьma	*glǫbьmi
locative	*glǫbi	*glǫbьju, *glǫbľu*	*glǫbьxъ
vocative	*glǫbi	*glǫbi	*glǫbi

^* 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:
  • Old East Slavic: глꙋбь (glubĭ)
    • Russian: глубь (glubʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Russian Church Slavonic: глꙋбь (glubĭ)
  • Bulgarian: глъб (glǎb) (obsolete)
  • Slovene: glôb (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hlúbě
    • Czech: hloub
      • ⇒ Czech: hloubka
  • Polish: głąb
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: dłyḿ, dłuḿ

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glǫbь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 144