Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paguba

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

Related to *gъbnǫti (“to bend”); *gubiti (“to destroy”).

Noun

*paguba f

1. ruin, destruction

Inflection

Declension of *paguba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*paguba	*pagubě	*paguby
genitive	*paguby	*pagubu	*pagubъ
dative	*pagubě	*pagubama	*pagubamъ
accusative	*pagubǫ	*pagubě	*paguby
instrumental	*pagubojǫ, *pagubǫ**	*pagubama	*pagubami
locative	*pagubě	*pagubu	*pagubasъ, *pagubaxъ*
vocative	*pagubo	*pagubě	*paguby

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пагоуба (paguba)

    • → Russian: пагуба (paguba)
  • Bulgarian: па́губа (páguba)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: pagubă

Further reading

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