Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vabiti

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.

Derksen:

• From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wōˀb-, from Proto-Indo-European *wōb-.
• From Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- or *weh₃b-.

Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to cry out, to lament”).

*vabiti

1. to lure

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вабити (vabiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: вабити (vabiti)
      • Ukrainian: ва́бити (vábyty)
    • Russian: ва́бить (vábitʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: вабити (vabiti)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⰰⰱⰹⱅⰹ (vabiti)

  • Bulgarian: ва́бя (vábja) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: ваби (vabi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ва́бити

    Latin script: vábiti

  • Slovene: vabīti, vábiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vábiti
    • Czech: vábit
  • Old Polish: wabić
    • Polish: wabić
  • Slovak: vábiť
  • Slovincian: wabjic
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wabiś
    • Upper Sorbian: wabić

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вабить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress