Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rǫbiti

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rambīˀtei, according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *remb- (“to notch, hack”).^[1]

Related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *rámbas. Cognate with Lithuanian rumbúoti (“to hem”), rémbėti (“to become covered with scars”), rum̃bas / rùmbas (“notch, scar, waist (on clothing)”), Latvian robs (“notch”) < *rambs. Per Vasmer, possibly cognate with Old Norse ramr, rammr (“sharp, bitter”), rimma (“struggle”), Old High German ramft (“edge”). Per Chernykh, cognate with Middle High German rumpf (“torso”) (modern German Rumpf).

*rǫbìti

1. to chop
2. to hem

• *rǫ̑bъ (“hem? coarse cloth?”)
• *rǫbežь

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рꙋбити (rubiti)
    • ⇒ Belarusian: руба́ць (rubácʹ)
    • Russian: руби́ть (rubítʹ, “to chop, to fell”), 1sg. рублю́ (rubljú), 3sg. ру́бит (rúbit)
    • Ukrainian: руби́ти (rubýty)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: рубати (rubaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рѫбити (rǫbiti)

  • Bulgarian: ръ́бя (rǎ́bja, “to hem”)
  • Macedonian: раби (rabi, “to border”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ру́бити (“to hem”), 1sg. ру̑бӣм

    Latin: rúbiti (“to hem”), 1sg. rȗbīm

  • Slovene: rọ́biti (“to hem, to beat, to chop”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. rọ́bim (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: roubit (“to erect, (rarely) to hem, (archaic) to graft”)
  • Kashubian: rãbic
  • Old Polish: rębić
    • Middle Polish: rąbić
  • ⇒ Slovak: rúbať (“to chop, to beat”)
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: rubać (“to chop”)
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: rubaś (“to chop”)

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “руби́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 125
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rǫbìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “руби́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress