Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glyba

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 *glъti (“to amass, to clew”) +‎ *-ьba, continuing Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to conglomerate, to gather into a mass”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *klewô (“ball”), Latin glūs (“glue”), Lithuanian glùmas (“clod, trunk”).

Parallel to Proto-Slavic *gliba (“mud, ooze”) from *gley- (“to stick, to glue”).

Noun

*glỳba f

1. lump, clump

Declension

Declension of *glỳba (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glỳba	*glỳbě	*glỳby
genitive	*glỳby	*glỳbu	*glỳbъ
dative	*glỳbě	*glỳbama	*glỳbamъ
accusative	*glỳbǫ	*glỳbě	*glỳby
instrumental	*glỳbojǫ, *glỳbǭ**	*glỳbama	*glỳbamī
locative	*glỳbě	*glỳbu	*glỳbasъ, *glỳbaxъ*
vocative	*glỳbo	*glỳbě	*glỳby

^* -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

• *gluma (“mockery”)
• *gluda (“mud”)
• *gluďь (“gob”)
• *gluzdъ (“curve, ankle”)
• *glyza (“clod”)

Derived terms

• *glybina (“void”)
• *glybokъ (“formless, deep”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: глы́ба (hlýba)
  • Russian: глы́ба (glýba)
  • Ukrainian: гли́ба (hlýba)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: глюба (gljuba, “mud”) (archaic, dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hlyba

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глы́ба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glyba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 160
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глюза”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 254