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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trǫba
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably onomatopaeic in nature, akin to Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ (“drone”), or borrowed from Old High German trumba (“drums”).
Inflection
Declension of *trǭbà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *trǭbà | *trǫ̃bě | *trǭbỳ |
Accusative | *trǭbǫ̀ | *trǫ̃bě | *trǭbỳ |
Genitive | *trǭbỳ | *trǭbù | *trǫ̃bъ |
Locative | *trǭbě̀ | *trǭbù | *trǭbàsъ, *trǭbàxъ* |
Dative | *trǭbě̀ | *trǭbàma | *trǭbàmъ |
Instrumental | *trǭbòjǫ, *trǫ̃bǫ** | *trǭbàma | *trǭbàmī |
Vocative | *trǫbo | *trǫ̃bě | *trǭbỳ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
- *trǫbiti (“to play trumpet”)
- *trǫbačь (“trumpet player”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: trâmbiță (Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic трѫбица (trǫbica))
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “труба”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “trǫba trǫby”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b rør, trompet (PR 135)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “trọ́ba”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*trǫba̋”
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