Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zęba

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 *zę(b)ti +‎ *-a.

Noun

*zęba f^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

chaffinch

Declension

Declension of *zęba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zęba	*zębě	*zęby
genitive	*zęby	*zębu	*zębъ
dative	*zębě	*zębama	*zębamъ
accusative	*zębǫ	*zębě	*zęby
instrumental	zębojǫ, zębǫ^**	*zębama	*zębami
locative	*zębě	*zębu	zębasъ, zębaxъ^*
vocative	*zębo	*zębě	*zęby

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- ⇒ Old East Slavic: *зѧбьлъ m (*zębĭlŭ)
  - ⇒ Old East Slavic: *зѧ́бьликъ m (*zę́bĭlikŭ)
    - Belarusian: зя́блік m (zjáblik)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: зя́блик m (zjáblyk)
    - Russian: зя́блик m (zjáblik)
    - Ukrainian: зя́блик m (zjáblyk)
- ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: зя́бка f (zjábka)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: зе́ба
  
  Latin script: zéba
  - → Pannonian Rusyn: зеба (zeba)
- Slovene: zę́ba (dialectal) (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Polish: zięba
- Slovak: zeba
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: zyba
  - Upper Sorbian: zyba

References

^ Shansky, N. M., editor (1975), “зя́блик”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, number 6 (З), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 115: “*zęba”
^ Vasmer, Max (1967) “зя́блик”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Е – Муж), Moscow: Progress, page 111: “*zęba”
^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “зя́блик”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 284: “*zęba”
^ Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “зя́блик”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 149: “*zęba”