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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
By surface analysis, *kolybati + *-ělь.
Noun
*kolybělь f
- cradle
Inflection
* 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).
Descendants
Further reading
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kolybělь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 165