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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
From Early Proto-Slavic *bábu.[1] From Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Old Prussian babo, Latin faba, Proto-Germanic *baunō (whence English bean), Albanian bathë, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós, “lentil”).
Noun
*bòbъ m[2]
- bean, fava bean
Declension
Declension of *bòbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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nominative
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*bòbъ
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*bobà
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*bobì
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genitive
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*bobà
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*bobù
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*bòbъ
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dative
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*bobù
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*bobòma
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*bobòmъ
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accusative
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*bòbъ
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*bobà
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*bobỳ
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instrumental
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*bobъ̀mь, *bobòmь*
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*bobòma
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*bòby
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locative
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*bobě̀
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*bobù
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*bòběxъ
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vocative
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*bobe
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*bobà
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*bobì
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* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: бобъ (bobŭ)
- Old Novgorodian: бобъ (bobŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: боб (bob)
- Macedonian: боб (bob)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: бо̏б
- Latin script: bȍb
- Slovene: bòb
- West Slavic:
- Czech: bob
- Polabian: büb
- Old Polish: bób
- Slovak: bôb
- Slovincian: bób
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: bob
- Upper Sorbian: bob
- → Proto-Finnic: *papu
- → Hungarian: bab
- → Romanian: bob
- → Yiddish: באָב (bob)
References
- ^ Klotz, Emanuel (2017) Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 67
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “bobъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b bønne (PR 134; MP 19; RPT 85ff.)”