Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gubiti

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.

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowbʰ-eye-, causative/iterative of the root *gʰewbʰ-. Compare *gỳbnǫti (“to perish”). Also cognate with *gъbnǫti (“to bend”). Other scholars reconstruct the PIE root differently; see discussion under Proto-Balto-Slavic *gúbtei.

*gubìti impf^[1][2][3]

1. to lose, to mislay
2. to destroy, to wreck

• *pogubiti
• *zagubiti
• *jьzgubiti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гꙋбити (gubiti) (accent paradigm c)
    • Belarusian: губі́ць (hubícʹ)
    • Russian: губи́ть (gubítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: губи́ти (hubýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: гоубити (gubiti)

    Glagolitic: ⰳⱆⰱⰻⱅⰻ (gubiti)

  • Bulgarian: гу́бя (gúbja)
  • Macedonian: губи (gubi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̀бити

    Latin script: gùbiti

  • Slovene: gubīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hubit
  • Polabian: ďaibĕt
  • Polish: gubić
  • Slovak: hubiť
  • Slovincian: gúbjic
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hubić
    • Lower Sorbian: gubiś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ги́бнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 186
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “губи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gubiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 166