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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *albits (“swan”) and *albiz (> elf).
Noun
*ȏlbǭdь m[1][2]
- swan
Declension
Derksen 2008 reconstructs this word as a jo-stem, but this must be secondary given the lack of iotation of final *d. Per Derksen, this word is either accent class c or a.
* 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).
Synonyms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*olbędь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 50
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лебедь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*olbǭdь; *olbǭtь; *elbedь; *elbǭtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365: “m. jo (c (a)) ‘swan’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “olbǫdь (lebedь, lebędь)”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c svane (PR 138)”