Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sębrъ

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

See w:Cimbri#Name.

Noun

*sębrъ m

  1. pal, fellow, mate, friend

Declension

Declension of *sębrъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *sębrъ *sębra *sębri
genitive *sębra *sębru *sębrъ
dative *sębru *sębroma *sębromъ
accusative *sębrъ *sębra *sębry
instrumental *sębrъmь, *sębromь* *sębroma *sębry
locative *sębrě *sębru *sębrěxъ
vocative *sębre *sębra *sębri

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

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: сѧбръ (sębrŭ), сѧбьръ (sębĭrŭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: сѧбръ (sjabr), сєбръ (sjebr), *сѧберъ (*sjaber)
        • Belarusian: ся́бар (sjábar); сябр (sjabr), ся́бер (sjábjer) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: ся́бер (sjáber); сябро́ (sjabró) (dialectal)
        • Polish: siaber; siabr (dialectal)
      • Russian: сябёр (sjabjór), сябр (sjabr)
      • Latgalian: sābrys
      • Latvian: sābris
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: себьръ, себрь
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: се̏бар
        Latin script: sȅbar
    • Slovene: sreber (obsolete)
  • Non-Slavic:
    • Albanian: sëmbër (obsolete)
    • Greek: σέμπρος (sémpros), σεμπρός (semprós)
    • Romanian: sâmbră, sîmbră, sîmbră

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сябер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress