Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerbę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Indo-European *gʷrebʰ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek βρέφος (bréphos).

Noun

*žērbę̀ n

foal

Declension

Declension of *žērbę̀ (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
Accusative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā
Genitive	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tъ
Locative	*žērbę̀te	*žērbę̀tu	*žērbę̀tьxъ
Dative	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tьmъ
Instrumental	*žērbę̀tьmь	*žērbę̀tьma	*žērbę̀tȳ
Vocative	*žērbę̀	*žērbę̀ti	*žērbę̀tā

Derived terms

*žerbьcь (diminutive)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: жарабя́ (žarabjá)
- Russian: жеребёнок (žerebjónok) (жереб- + -ёнок), жеребе́ц (žerebéc, “stallion”)
- Ukrainian: жеребе́ць (žerebécʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: жрѣбѧ (žrěbę)
- Bulgarian: жребе́ц (žrebéc)
- Macedonian: ждре́бе (ždrébe)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ждре̑бе, ждрије̑бе
  
  Latin: ždrȇbe, ždrijȇbe
- Slovene: žrebȅ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: hříbě
- Polish: źrebię
- Slovak: žriebä
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: žrěbje
  - Upper Sorbian: žrěbjo

References

Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 554

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