Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korbica

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 *kȏrbъ +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*korbica f^[1]

box, chest

Declension

Declension of *korbica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korbica	*korbici	*korbicę̇
genitive	*korbicę̇	*korbicu	*korbicь
dative	*korbici	*korbicama	*korbicamъ
accusative	*korbicǫ	*korbici	*korbicę̇
instrumental	korbicejǫ, korbicǫ^**	*korbicama	*korbicami
locative	*korbici	*korbicu	korbicasъ, korbicaxъ^*
vocative	*korbice	*korbici	*korbicę̇

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: коробица (korobica)
  - Russian: (dialectal) коро́би́ца (koróbíca)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: крабица (krabica)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: кра̏бица
    
    Latin script: krȁbica
    - → Slovene: krabica
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: шкра̀бӣца, скра̀бӣца
  
  Latin script: škràbīca, skràbīca
- ⇒ Slovene: škrábica
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krabicě
  - Czech: krabice
- Old Slovak: krabica
  - Slovak: krabica

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korbica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 51

Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “krabice”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 320
Václav Machek (1968) “krabice”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 287
Králik, Ľubor (2016) “krabica”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 296

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korbica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 51

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