Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/arębъ

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.

*a- +‎ *rębъ (“speckled, spotted”). Found with an unprefixed analogue in Latvian irbe (“partridge”) against an adjective raibs (“variegated, spotted”), which is in Lithuanian raibas (“variegated, spotted”), to be juxtaposed with Proto-Germanic *erpaz (“light brown”) (which has derivations denoting the similar-looking hazel grouse) and Old Irish riabach (“spotted, variegated”); note also Old Norse rjúpa (“ptarmigan”).

*arębъ m

1. partridge

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: *орѧбъ (*orjab), орѧбка (orjabka), рѧбець (rjabecʹ)
    • Belarusian: о́раб (órab) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: оря́бок (orjábok, “hazel grouse”), ря́бчик (rjábčyk, “hazel grouse”)
  • ⇒ Russian: ря́бчик (rjábčik, “hazel grouse”)
• South Slavic:
  • Russian Church Slavonic: ꙗрѧбь (jarębĭ)
  • Middle Bulgarian: ерѧбь (erębĭ)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: я́ребица (járebica)
    • ⇒ Macedonian: еребица (erebica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: jа̏ре̑б

    Latin script: jȁrȇb

    Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: ȍreb

    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: јарѐбица
      • Latin script: jarèbica
  • Slovene: jerẹ̑b, jarẹ̑b
    • ⇒ Slovene: jerebíca
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jeřáb
    • Czech: jeřáb
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): řeřáb
      • ⇒ Czech: jeřábek (“hazel grouse”)
      • ⇒ Czech: jeřabice, orebice (“rock partridge”)
  • Polish: jarząb
    • ⇒ Polish: jarząbek (“grouse”)
  • Slovak: jarab
    • ⇒ Slovak: jariabok (“hazel grouse”)

• Non-Slavic:
  • →? Old High German: rebhuon, rebahuon
    • Middle High German: rëphuon
      • German: Repphuhn, Rebhuhn
      • Vilamovian: raubhün
  • →? Middle Low German: raphōn (influenced by rap (“rash”))
    • Low German: Rapphohn
    • → Danish: raphøne (disused)
    • →? Middle Dutch: raaphoen, raphoen
    • → Norwegian: rapphøne, formerly also raphøne
    • → Old Swedish: raphōns
      • Swedish: rapphöna

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/arębъ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 204
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*arębъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 73
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ярябь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “Rebhuhn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache