Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rebro

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

*rebrò

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rébra, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ-.

Noun

*rebrò n

1. rib

Inflection

Declension of *rebrò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà
genitive	*rebrà	*rebrù	*rèbrъ
dative	*rebrù	*rebròma	*rebròmъ
accusative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà
instrumental	*rebrъ̀mь, *rebròmь*	*rebròma	*rèbry
locative	*rebrě̀	*rebrù	*rèbrěxъ
vocative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà

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

Derived terms

• *rèbrьce

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ребро́ (rebró)
    • Old Ruthenian: ребро́ (rebró)
      • Belarusian: рабро́ (rabró)
      • Ukrainian: ребро́ (rebró)
    • Russian: ребро́ (rebró)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ребро (rebro)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⰵⰱⱃⱁ (rebro)

  • Bulgarian: ребро́ (rebró)
  • Macedonian: ребро (rebro)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: рѐбро

    Latin script: rèbro

  • Slovene: rébro
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: řebro
    • Czech: žebro
  • Polabian: rebrü
  • Old Polish: żebro
    • Polish: żebro
    • Silesian: ziebro
  • Slovak: rebro
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: żebro
    • Slovincian: rzêbrô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: rjobro, rjobło
    • Upper Sorbian: rjebło

Further reading

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