Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbę

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 *õrbъ (“servant, slave”) +‎ *-ę.

PIE word
*h₃órbʰos

Noun

*orbę̀ n

1. child

Declension

Declension of *orbę̀ (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orbę̀	*orbę̀ti	*orbę̀tā
genitive	*orbę̀te	*orbę̀tu	*orbę̀tъ
dative	*orbę̀ti	*orbę̀tьma	*orbę̀tьmъ
accusative	*orbę̀	*orbę̀ti	*orbę̀tā
instrumental	*orbę̀tьmь	*orbę̀tьma	*orbę̀tȳ
locative	*orbę̀te	*orbę̀tu	*orbę̀tьxъ
vocative	*orbę̀	*orbę̀ti	*orbę̀tā

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: робѧ (robę)
    • Old Ruthenian: робѧ́ (robjá)
      • ⇒ Old Ruthenian: робѧ́та (robjáta), рабѧ́та (rabjáta)
        • Belarusian: рабя́ты (rabjáty)
        • Ukrainian: ребеня́ (rebenjá), ребени́чка (rebenýčka)
    • Middle Russian: робѧ́ (robjá)
      • Russian: ребя́ (rebjá), ро́бя́ (róbjá) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Middle Russian: робѧ́та (robjáta), ребѧ́та (rebjáta)
        • Russian: ребя́та (rebjáta); ребя́ты (rebjáty), рёбя́та (rjobjáta), робя́та (robjáta) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: robě
    • Czech: robě
      • ⇒ Czech: robata
  • Old Polish: robię
  • Slovak: robä

Further reading

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 113
• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “рабя́ты”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN