Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbotati

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

From *orbota +‎ *-ati.

PIE word
*h₃órbʰos

Verb

*orbotati^[1]

to work

Inflection

Conjugation of *orbotati, *orbota, *orbotajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*orbotanьje	*orbotati	*orbotatъ	*orbotalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*orbotanъ	*orbotajemъ
Active	*orbotavъ	*orbotaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*orbotaxъ	*orbota	*orbota	*orbotajǫ	*orbotaješi	*orbotajetь
Dual	*orbotaxově	*orbotasta	*orbotaste	*orbotajevě	*orbotajeta	*orbotajete
Plural	*orbotaxomъ	*orbotaste	*orbotašę	*orbotajemъ	*orbotajete	*orbotajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*orbotaaxъ	*orbotaaše	*orbotaaše	—	*orbotaji	*orbotaji
Dual	*orbotaaxově	*orbotaašeta	*orbotaašete	*orbotajivě	*orbotajita	—
Plural	*orbotaaxomъ	*orbotaašete	*orbotaaxǫ	*orbotajimъ	*orbotajite	—

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: роботати (robotati), работати (rabotati)
  - Middle Russian: работати (rabotati), роботати (robotati)
    - Russian: рабо́тать (rabótatʹ), (dialectal) робо́тать (robótatʹ)
  - Old Ruthenian: работати (rabotati), роботати (robotati)
    - Belarusian: работа́ць (rabotácʹ), (dialectal) рабо́тыць (rabótycʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: работати (rabotati)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰱⱁⱅⰰⱅⰻ (rabotati)
  - Bulgarian: рабо́тя (rabótja)
  - Macedonian: работи (raboti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ра̀ботати
  
  Latin script: ràbotati
- Slovene: rabótati (tonal orthography)

References

^ Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbotati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122

[1] Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbotati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122

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