Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sębrъ

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

Noun

*sębrъ m

1. pal, fellow, mate, friend

Declension

Declension of *sębrъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sębrъ	*sębra	*sębri
genitive	*sębra	*sębru	*sębrъ
dative	*sębru	*sębroma	*sębromъ
accusative	*sębrъ	*sębra	*sębry
instrumental	*sębrъmь, *sębromь*	*sębroma	*sębry
locative	*sębrě	*sębru	*sębrěxъ
vocative	*sębre	*sębra	*sębri

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сѧбръ (sębrŭ), сѧбьръ (sębĭrŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: сѧбръ (sjabr), сєбръ (sjebr), *сѧберъ (*sjaber)
      • Belarusian: ся́бар (sjábar); сябр (sjabr), ся́бер (sjábjer) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: ся́бер (sjáber); сябро́ (sjabró) (dialectal)
      • → Polish: siaber; siabr (dialectal)
    • Russian: сябёр (sjabjór), сябр (sjabr)
    • → Latgalian: sābrys
    • → Latvian: sābris
• South Slavic:
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: себьръ, себрь
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: се̏бар

      Latin script: sȅbar

  • Slovene: sreber (obsolete)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: sëmbër
  • → Greek: σέμπρος (sémpros), σεμπρός (semprós)
  • → Romanian: sâmbră, sîmbră, sîmbră
    • → Hungarian: cimbora
      • → Carpathian Rusyn: цімбор (cimbor)

Further reading

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