Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/svorbъ

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *sworbʰ-o-, cognate with Proto-Germanic *swarbaz (whence Old Norse svarf (“grit, metalic dust”), English swarf). Synchronically, an o-grade action noun of *svьrběti (“to itch”) +‎ *-ъ.

*svȏrbъ m

1. itch

   Synonym: *draznь

• *svьrbežь (“itch”)
• *svьrbota (“itching, pricking”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: своробъ (svorobŭ)
    • Belarusian: сво́раб (svórab) (archaic)
    • Russian: сво́роб (svórob) (archaic)
    • Ukrainian: сво́роб (svórob, “itch”) (archaic), своріб (svorib, “scabies”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сврабъ (svrabŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰲⱃⰰⰱⱏ (svrabŭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: свра̑б

    Latin script: svrȃb

    • Chakavian:
  • Slovene: srȃb (tonal orthography) (earlier svrȃb)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: svrab
    • Czech: svrab
  • Kashubian: swôrb, svôrb (alternate orthography)
  • Lower Sorbian: swjerbota, swjerbjenje
  • Polish: świerzb
  • Slovak: svrab

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сво́роб”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress