Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtroba

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 *ǫtro +‎ *-oba.

Noun

*ǭtròba f[1]

  1. internal organs, entrails, viscera

Inflection

Declension of *ǭtròba (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *ǭtròba *ǭtròbě *ǭtròby
genitive *ǭtròby *ǭtròbu *ǭtròbъ
dative *ǭtròbě *ǭtròbama *ǭtròbamъ
accusative *ǭtròbǫ *ǭtròbě *ǭtròby
instrumental *ǭtròbojǫ, *ǭtròbǭ** *ǭtròbama *ǭtròbamī
locative *ǭtròbě *ǭtròbu *ǭtròbasъ, *ǭtròbaxъ*
vocative *ǭtròbo *ǭtròbě *ǭtròby

* -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).

Derived terms

  • *ǫtrobьnъ (adj.)

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “утроба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “утроба”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 296
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “утроба”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ǫtroba”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 387: “f. ā (a) ‘entrails’”
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