Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/biba

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 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

Onomatopoeic, from the call bi-bi + *-a.

Noun

*biba f

  1. type of bird (fowl, game bird) or bird's bill

Declension

Declension of *biba (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *biba *bibě *biby
genitive *biby *bibu *bibъ
dative *bibě *bibama *bibamъ
accusative *bibǫ *bibě *biby
instrumental *bibojǫ, *bibǫ** *bibama *bibami
locative *bibě *bibu *bibasъ, *bibaxъ*
vocative *bibo *bibě *biby
* -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).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: би́ба (bíba, “duck's bill”), би́бка (bíbka, “duck, fowl”) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бѝба (“fowl”) (dialectal, Serbian)
      ⇒ Latin script: bíbac (“turkey”) (Bosnian)
    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bíbati (“to gather around water, to cause commotion”)
      • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bȋba (“place where waterfowl gather”) (dialectal, Croatian)
      • → Slovene: bíba (“buzzer, insect”), bíbavicа (“tidal wave”) (18 cent.)
  • West Slavic:
    • ⇒ Slovak: bibic (“common chaffinch”)

Further reading

  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “биба”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 45
  • Skok, Petar (1971) “Proto-Slavic/biba”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 144
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “biba”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
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