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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glyba

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 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]

  1. lump, clump

Declension

  • *gluma (“mockery”)
  • *gluda (“mud”)
  • *gluďь (“gob”)
  • *gluzdъ (“curve, ankle”)
  • *glyza (“clod”)

Derived terms

  • *glybina (“void”)
  • *glybokъ (“formless, deep”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: глы́ба (hlýba)
    • Russian: глы́ба (glýba)
    • Ukrainian: гли́ба (hlýba)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: глюба (gljuba, “mud”) (archaic, dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: hlyba

Further reading

References

  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “glyba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (RPT 109)”
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