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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Either of onomatopoeic origin from the same root as Proto-Slavic *verva (“fuss, noise”), *verskъ (“scream”) or probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)werbʰ- (“to peck, to scratch”), akin to Lithuanian žvìrblis (“sparrow”) , Latvian zvirbulis (“sparrow”), virblis (“eagle”) (dialectal). If correct, the Baltic forms would reflect the s-mobile form of the root.
Noun
*võrbь m
- sparrow
Declension
* 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).
Derived terms
Descendants
The primary i-stem is attested only indirectly, e.g. in Ukrainian вороб'я́ pl (vorobʺjá) (dialectal) and in loanwords:
- East Slavic:
- Old Ukrainian: воробѧ́ n (vorobjá, “sparrow”)[3] (< *võrbь + *-ę)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “воробей”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- горобець in Горох.ua (Етимологія)
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “врабче”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 178
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Snoj, Marko (2016) “vrábec”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *vorbьcь̏, *vorbьjь̏”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “vorbьjь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b spurv (PR 134)”
- ^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “воробѧ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 231