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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From a metathesised form of Proto-Slavic *orbę. Cognate with Old Polish robię.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɔˈbɛ̃/→/rɔˈbʲa/→/rɔˈbʲa/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbɛ̃/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbʲa/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /rɔˈbʲa/
Noun
робѧ (robę) n
- child
Declension
Declension of робѧ (t-stem)
Descendants
- Russian: ребя́та (rebjáta) (from the plural)
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “робѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 125