Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rǫbežь

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 *rǫbiti (“to chop, hem”) +‎ *-ežь.

Noun

*rǫbežь m

1. border

Declension

Declension of *rǫbežь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rǫbežь	*rǫbeža	*rǫbeži
genitive	*rǫbeža	*rǫbežu	*rǫbežь
dative	*rǫbežu	*rǫbežema	*rǫbežemъ
accusative	*rǫbežь	*rǫbeža	*rǫbežę̇
instrumental	*rǫbežьmь, *rǫbežemь*	*rǫbežema	*rǫbeži
locative	*rǫbeži	*rǫbežu	*rǫbežixъ
vocative	*rǫbežu	*rǫbeža	*rǫbeži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: рубежь (rubežĭ)
  • → Russian: рубе́ж (rubéž)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рѫбежь (rǫbežĭ)
    • Belarusian: рубе́ж (rubjéž)
    • → Polish: rubież
    • Russian: рубёж (rubjóž)
      • → Bulgarian: рубеж (rubež)
    • Ukrainian: рубі́ж (rubíž)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ръбе́ж (rǎbéž, “edge”)
  • Macedonian: рабуш (rabuš)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: [Term?]

    Latin: [Term?]

  • Slovene:
• West Slavic:
  • Czech:
  • Polish: rąbież
  • Slovak:
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian:

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рубеж”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “ръбеж”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 361