Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pobratimъ

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

Per Vasmer, deverbal of *pobratiti.

Noun

*pobratimъ m

1. blood brother

Declension

Declension of *pobratimъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pobratimъ	*pobratima	*pobratimi
genitive	*pobratima	*pobratimu	*pobratimъ
dative	*pobratimu	*pobratimoma	*pobratimomъ
accusative	*pobratimъ	*pobratima	*pobratimy
instrumental	*pobratimъmь, *pobratimomь*	*pobratimoma	*pobratimy
locative	*pobratimě	*pobratimu	*pobratiměxъ
vocative	*pobratime	*pobratima	*pobratimi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: побрати́м (pobratím)
  • Ukrainian: побрати́м (pobratým)
    • → Polish: pobratym (obsolete)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: побра̀тим (pobràtim)
  • Macedonian: побратим (pobratim)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀братим

    Latin script: pòbratim

  • Slovene: pobrȃtim (tonal orthography)
  • → Albanian: probatin
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pobratim
  • Polish: pobracim
  • Slovak: pobratim

Further reading

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