Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gybati

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 *gubā́ˀtei, itself from *gúbtei.

Verb

*gybati

1. to bend

Related terms

• *gubìti (“to destroy”)
• *gỳbnǫti (“to perish”)
• *gъbnǫti (“to bend, to fold”)
• *guba (“bending, dimpling”)
• *sǫgubъ (“double”)
• *gybъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гꙑбати (gybati), гꙑбатисꙗ (gybatisja)
    • Belarusian: гіба́ць (hibácʹ), гі́баць (híbacʹ) (dialectal)
    • Russian: гиба́ть (gibátʹ), гы́бать (gýbatʹ) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: гиба́ть (hybátʹ) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: загиба́ти (zahybáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: гꙑбати (gybati)

    Glagolitic script: ⰳⱏⰹⰱⰰⱅⰺ (gybati)

  • Middle Bulgarian: ги́бѫм (gíbǫm)
    • Bulgarian: ги́бам (gíbam), ги́ба̣м (gíbạm) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: гиба (giba)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ги́бати

    Latin script: gíbati

  • Slovene: gíbati
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hýbati; hýbat, hýbať, hyjbat (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: gibać
    • Polish: gibać (dialectal)
  • Slovak: hýbať; híbat (dialectal); hibaj
  • Slovincian: gjibac
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: gibaś
    • Upper Sorbian: gibać

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гиба́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress