Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rebro

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

*rebrò

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rébra, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ-.

Noun

*rebrò n^[1]

rib

Inflection

Declension of *rebrò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà
genitive	*rebrà	*rebrù	*rèbrъ
dative	*rebrù	*rebròma	*rebròmъ
accusative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà
instrumental	rebrъ̀mь, rebròmь^*	*rebròma	*rèbry
locative	*rebrě̀	*rebrù	*rèbrěxъ
vocative	*rebrò	*rèbrě	*rebrà

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

Derived terms

*rèbrьce

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ребро́ (rebró)
  - Old Ruthenian: ребро́ (rebró)
    - Belarusian: рабро́ (rabró)
    - Ukrainian: ребро́ (rebró)
  - Russian: ребро́ (rebró)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: ребро (rebro)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⰵⰱⱃⱁ (rebro)
- Bulgarian: ребро́ (rebró)
- Macedonian: ребро (rebro)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: рѐбро
  
  Latin script: rèbro
- Slovene: rébro
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: řebro
  - Czech: žebro
- Polabian: rebrü
- Old Polish: żebro
  - Polish: żebro, żebrze (Southern Greater Poland)
  - Silesian: ziebro
- Slovak: rebro
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: żebro
  - Slovincian: rzêbrô
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: rjobro, rjobło
  - Upper Sorbian: rjebło

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rebrò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 433: “n. o (b) ‘rib’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rebrò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 433: “n. o (b) ‘rib’”

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