Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paorbъkъ

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 *paõrbъ +‎ *-ъkъ, ultimately from *pa- +‎ *õrbъ (“servant, slave”).

PIE word
*h₃órbʰos

Noun

*paorbъkъ m

1. young servant, young worker
2. youth, guy, lad

Declension

Declension of *paorbъkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*paorbъkъ	*paorbъka	*paorbъci
genitive	*paorbъka	*paorbъku	*paorbъkъ
dative	*paorbъku	*paorbъkoma	*paorbъkomъ
accusative	*paorbъkъ	*paorbъka	*paorbъky
instrumental	*paorbъkъmь, *paorbъkomь*	*paorbъkoma	*paorbъky
locative	*paorbъcě	*paorbъku	*paorbъcěxъ
vocative	*paorbъče	*paorbъka	*paorbъci

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

Derived terms

• *paõrbъčьjь

Related terms

• *orbę (“junior servant”)
• *paõrbę

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: па́робъкъ (párobŭkŭ), па́робокъ (párobokŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́робокъ (párobok), па́рубокъ (párubok), па́рабокъ (párabok)
      • Belarusian: па́рабок (párabok), па́робок (párobok), паробо́к (parobók); па́рабак (párabak), па́рубок (párubok), парабо́к (parabók), паро́бак (paróbak) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: па́робок (párobok)
      • Ukrainian: па́рубок (párubok); па́рабак (párabak), па́робок (párobok), па́рібок (páribok), парбок (parbok) (dialectal)
        • → Russian: па́рубок (párubok) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: па́робокъ (párobok)
      • Russian: па́робок (párobok)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: parobek
    • Czech: parobek; parůbek, paróbek (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: parobek
    • Polish: parobek
  • Old Slovak: parobok
    • Slovak: parobok, parobek; parobëk, parobǝk (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: parobk (obsolete)

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*paorbъkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 100
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “паробок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “па́рабак”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka