Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orba

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

Noun

*orba f

1. feminine of *orbъ: female servant, female slave

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Note that the descendants exhibit a metathesis of the liquid r (*or- > ro-; ra-):

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: роба (roba)
    • Old Ruthenian: ро́ба (róba)
      • Belarusian: ро́ба (róba) (obsolete)
      • Ukrainian: ро́ба (róba, “a hardworking woman”)
  • Old Novgorodian: роба (roba)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: раба (raba)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰱⰰ (raba)

    • → Old East Slavic: раба (raba)
      • Old Ruthenian: раба́ (rabá)
        • Belarusian: раба́ (rabá)
        • Ukrainian: раба́ (rabá)
      • Russian: раба́ (rabá)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: roba (“wife”) (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: roba (“female servant or slave, wife, disorderly woman, sow”)
    • Polish: roba (dialectal or obsolete)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbъ/*orba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 131
• Савва Михайлович (2012), “22 Древнерусских глаголических надписи-граффити XI–XII веков из Новгорода” in Slovo, vol. 62, pp. 63-99.