Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/arębina

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

Alternative reconstructions

*ěrębina, *erębina, *rębina

Etymology

*arębъ (“partridge”) +‎ *-ina. The sense of rowan comes from the usage of the fruits to catch birds, also reflected in the botanical name (from aucupārī), German Vogelbeere etc.

Noun

*arębina f

Declension

Declension of *arębina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*arębina	*arębině	*arębiny
genitive	*arębiny	*arębinu	*arębinъ
dative	*arębině	*arębinama	*arębinamъ
accusative	*arębinǫ	*arębině	*arębiny
instrumental	arębinojǫ, arębinǫ^**	*arębinama	*arębinami
locative	*arębině	*arębinu	arębinasъ, arębinaxъ^*
vocative	*arębino	*arębině	*arębiny

^* -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:
- Belarusian: рабі́на (rabína)
- Russian: ряби́на (rjabína) and alleged others
  - →? Bulgarian: рябина (rjabina)
- Ukrainian: гороби́на (horobýna) – (standard), dialectal forms include ряби́на (rjabýna), ороби́на (orobýna), оря́бина (orjábyna)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: јарѐбина, јарѐбика
  
  Latin script: jarèbina, jarèbika
- Slovene: jerebína, jerebíka
West Slavic:
- Czech: jeřabina
- Kashubian: jarzëbina, jarzbina, jerzbina
- Polish: jarzębina
- Slovak: jarabina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: jeŕebina, heŕebina
  - Upper Sorbian: wjerjebina