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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
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According to Vasmer, possibly related to *zǫbъ.
Noun
*zǫbrъ m
- European bison, wisent (Bison bonasus)
Inflection
Declension of *zǫbrъ (hard o-stem)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*zǫbrъ
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*zǫbra
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*zǫbri
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| genitive
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*zǫbra
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*zǫbru
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*zǫbrъ
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| dative
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*zǫbru
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*zǫbroma
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*zǫbromъ
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| accusative
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*zǫbrъ
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*zǫbra
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*zǫbry
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| instrumental
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*zǫbrъmь, *zǫbromь*
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*zǫbroma
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*zǫbry
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| locative
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*zǫbrě
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*zǫbru
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*zǫbrěxъ
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| vocative
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*zǫbre
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*zǫbra
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*zǫbri
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* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *зубръ (*zubrŭ), зубрь (zubrĭ)
- Old Ruthenian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ), зоубръ (zubr), зꙋбръ (zubr), зꙋбрь (zubrʹ) — alternative spelling
- Belarusian: зубр (zubr); зу́бар (zúbar) (Taraškievica orthography)
- Carpathian Rusyn: зубор (zubor)
- Ukrainian: зубр (zubr); зу́бір (zúbir) (dialectal)
- → Old Polish: zubr
- Polish: żubr
- → Old Ruthenian: жубръ (žubr) (dialectal)
- Middle Russian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ)
- Russian: зубр (zubr); зубрь (zubrʹ) (dialectal)
- → Bulgarian: зу́бър (zúbǎr)
- → Kildin Sami: зубр (zubr)
- ⇒ Middle Russian: изубръ (izubr), изубрь (izubrʹ) (17ᵗʰ c.)
- Russian: изюбрь (izjubrʹ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script: зѫбръ (zǫbrŭ)
- → Byzantine Greek: ζόμβρος (zómbros), ζοῦμβρος (zoûmbros)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: зу̏бар, зу̀бāр
- Latin script: zȕbar, zùbār
- Slovene: zǫ̑ber (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- → Romanian: zimbru
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зубр”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress