Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nebo

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 *nébʰos (“cloud”).

Noun

*nȅbo n

sky
heaven

Declension

Declension of *nȅbo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nȅbo	*nȅbesi	*nebesà
Accusative	*nȅbo	*nȅbesi	*nebesà
Genitive	*nȅbese	*nebesù	*nebèsъ
Locative	*nȅbese	*nebesù	*nebèsьxъ
Dative	*nȅbesi	*nebesьmà	*nebèsьmъ
Instrumental	*nȅbesьmь	*nebesьmà	*nebesý
Vocative	*nȅbo	*nȅbesi	*nebesà

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: нёба (njóba, “palate”)
- Russian: нёбо (njóbo, “palate”)
- Rusyn: не́бо (nébo, “sky”)
- Ukrainian: не́бо (nébo, “sky”)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: небо (nebo)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱀⰵⰱⱁ (nebo)
  - → Belarusian: не́ба (njéba)
  - → Russian: не́бо (nébo)
- Bulgarian: небе́ (nebé)
- Macedonian: не́бо (nébo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: не̏бо
  
  Latin: nȅbo
  - Molise Croatian: neba
- Slovene: nebọ̑ (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:
- Czech: nebe
- Kashubian: niebò
- Polabian: nebü
- Polish: niebo, niebiosa
- Slovak: nebo, nebesá/nebesia
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: njebjo
  - Upper Sorbian: njebjo

References

Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “не́бо”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nebo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 347

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