Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerbъ

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 Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch, cut out, incise”).

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian Asg. gīrbin (“number”).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I carve, write”) (< *gr̥bʰoh₂), Proto-Germanic *kerbaną.

Noun

*žerbъ m

something cut off, offcut
lot, fate

Declension

Declension of *žerbъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žerbъ	*žerba	*žerbi
genitive	*žerba	*žerbu	*žerbъ
dative	*žerbu	*žerboma	*žerbomъ
accusative	*žerbъ	*žerba	*žerby
instrumental	žerbъmь, žerbomь^*	*žerboma	*žerby
locative	*žerbě	*žerbu	*žerběxъ
vocative	*žerbe	*žerba	*žerbi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: жэ́раб (žérab)
- Ukrainian: же́реб (žéreb)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: жрѣбъ (žrěbŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰶⱃⱑⰱⱏ (žrěbŭ)
- Macedonian: ждреб (ždreb)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: жре̑б, жри̏јеб
  
  Latin: žrȇb, žrȉjeb
- Slovene: žrȇb (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hřěb
  - Czech: hřeb
- Old Polish: źrzeb
- Slovak: žreb

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жеребей”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “жребий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 306