Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/snubiti

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.

• *snǫbiti (per Vasmer, secondary dialectal variant)

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)newbʰ- (“to wed, to match”), possibly related to *(s)neh₁- (“to fasten, to thread”). Cognate with Latin nūbō (“to get married”) and akin to Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride”).

*snubìti impf^[1]

1. to wed, to matchmake

   Synonyms: *svatovati, *sъvoditi

2. to betroth

• *snubьcь, *snubačь, *snubokъ (“matchmaker”)
• *děvisnubъ, *děvosnubъ (“escort of the bride”)

• *snuti, *snovati (“to warp”)
• *snъxa (“bride”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: снубити (snubiti)
    • Russian: сну́бить (snúbitʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: сноубити (snubiti) (Russian recension)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сну́бити

    Latin script: snúbiti

  • Slovene: snúbiti, snóbiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: snúbiti
    • Czech: snoubit
  • Old Polish: snębić
  • Slovak: snúbiť

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “снубить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress