Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paorbъ

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 *pa- +‎ *õrbъ (“servant, slave”).

Noun

*paorbъ m

1. slave

Declension

Declension of *paorbъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*paorbъ	*paorba	*paorbi
genitive	*paorba	*paorbu	*paorbъ
dative	*paorbu	*paorboma	*paorbomъ
accusative	*paorbъ	*paorba	*paorby
instrumental	*paorbъmь, *paorbomь*	*paorboma	*paorby
locative	*paorbě	*paorbu	*paorběxъ
vocative	*paorbe	*paorba	*paorbi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *paorbę
• *paorbъkъ
  • *paorbъčьjь
• *paorbьňь (“fellow, lad”) (East Slavic)
• *paorbьskъjь

Descendants

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: parob m (bookish)
  • Polish: parób (dialectal)
  • Slovak: parob

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*paorbъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 100