Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gliba

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 an unattested *glьti (“to mud”) +‎ *-ьba, continuing Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick, to glue”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *klibą (“cliff”).

Parallel to Proto-Slavic *glyba (“mud, ooze”) from *glew- (“to conglomerate, to gather into a mass”).

Noun

*gliba f

1. mud, ooze, mire

Alternative forms

• *glibъ m
• *glibь f

Declension

Declension of *gliba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gliba	*glibě	*gliby
genitive	*gliby	*glibu	*glibъ
dative	*glibě	*glibama	*glibamъ
accusative	*glibǫ	*glibě	*gliby
instrumental	*glibojǫ, *glibǫ**	*glibama	*glibami
locative	*glibě	*glibu	*glibasъ, *glibaxъ*
vocative	*glibo	*glibě	*gliby

^* -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

• *glěnь, *glěnъ (“sticky clay”)
• *glěvъ, *glěvь, *glěva (“mush, muddy mixture”)
• *glina (“clay”)
• *glistъ, *glista (“worm, helminth”)
• *gliva (“fungus”)
• *glьjь (“clay”)

Derived terms

• *glibati (“to wade into a swamp”)
• *glibina (“swamp”)
• *glibavъ (“swampy”)
• *glibъkъ (“yeast”)
• *glibělь (“abyss”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: гли́ба (hlíba)
  • Russian: гли́ба (glíba)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: глиб f (glib) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: глиб m (glib)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гли̑б m

    Latin script: glȋb m

  • Slovene: glȋb m
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hliba (archaic)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глиба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gliba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 124
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глиб”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 248