Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/svorbъ

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 *sworbʰ-o-, cognate with Proto-Germanic *swarbaz (whence Old Norse svarf (grit, metalic dust), English swarf). Synchronically, an o-grade action noun of *svьrběti (to itch) +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*svȏrbъ m[1][2][3]

  1. itch
    Synonym: *draznь

Declension

Declension of *svȏrbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *svȏrbъ *svȏrba *svȏrbi
genitive *svȏrba *svorbù *svõrbъ
dative *svȏrbu *svorbomà *svorbòmъ
accusative *svȏrbъ *svȏrba *svȏrby
instrumental *svȏrbъmь, *svȏrbomь* *svorbomà *svorbý
locative *svȏrbě *svorbù *svorbě̃xъ
vocative *svorbe *svȏrba *svȏrbi

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

  • *svьrbežь (itch)
  • *svьrbota (itching, pricking)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: своробъ (svorobŭ)
      • Belarusian: сво́раб (svórab) (archaic)
      • Russian: сво́роб (svórob) (archaic)
      • Ukrainian: сво́роб (svórob, itch) (archaic), своріб (svorib, scabies)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: сврабъ (svrabŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱄⰲⱃⰰⰱⱏ (svrabŭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: свра̑б
      Latin script: svrȃb
      • Chakavian: [Term?]
    • Slovene: srȃb (tonal orthography) (earlier svrȃb)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: svrab
    • Kashubian: swôrb, svôrb (alternate orthography)
    • Lower Sorbian: swjerbota, swjerbjenje
    • Polish: świerzb
    • Slovak: svrab

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*svȏrbъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 477
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “svorbъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c kløen (PR 137)
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “srab”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *svȏrbъ