Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glyba
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From an unattested *glъti (“to amass, to clew”) + *-ьba, continuing Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to conglomerate, to gather into a mass”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *klewô (“ball”), Latin glūs (“glue”), Lithuanian glùmas (“clod, trunk”).
Parallel to Proto-Slavic *gliba (“mud, ooze”) from *gley- (“to stick, to glue”).
Noun
*glỳba f[1]
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *glỳba | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
| genitive | *glỳby | *glỳbu | *glỳbъ |
| dative | *glỳbě | *glỳbama | *glỳbamъ |
| accusative | *glỳbǫ | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
| instrumental | *glỳbojǫ, *glỳbǭ** | *glỳbama | *glỳbamī |
| locative | *glỳbě | *glỳbu | *glỳbasъ, *glỳbaxъ* |
| vocative | *glỳbo | *glỳbě | *glỳby |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
- *gluma (“mockery”)
- *gluda (“mud”)
- *gluďь (“gob”)
- *gluzdъ (“curve, ankle”)
- *glyza (“clod”)
Derived terms
- *glybina (“void”)
- *glybokъ (“formless, deep”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: глюба (gljuba, “mud”) (archaic, dialectal)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hlyba
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глы́ба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glyba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 160
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глюза”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 254