Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zǫbrъ

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According to Vasmer, possibly related to *zǫbъ.

*zǫbrъ m

1. European bison, wisent (Bison bonasus)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *зубръ (*zubrŭ), зубрь (zubrĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ), зоубръ (zubr), зꙋбръ (zubr), зꙋбрь (zubrʹ) — alternative spelling
      • Belarusian: зубр (zubr); зу́бар (zúbar) (Taraškievica orthography)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: зубор (zubor)
      • Ukrainian: зубр (zubr); зу́бір (zúbir) (dialectal)
      • → Old Polish: zubr
        • Polish: żubr
          • → Old Ruthenian: жубръ (žubr) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: зубръ (zubr), зубрь (zubrʹ)
      • Russian: зубр (zubr); зубрь (zubrʹ) (dialectal)
        • → Bulgarian: зу́бър (zúbǎr)
        • → Kildin Sami: зубр (zubr)
      • ⇒ Middle Russian: изубръ (izubr), изубрь (izubrʹ) (17ᵗʰ c.)
        • Russian: изюбрь (izjubrʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: зѫбръ (zǫbrŭ)

    • → Byzantine Greek: ζόμβρος (zómbros), ζοῦμβρος (zoûmbros)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зу̏бар, зу̀бāр

    Latin script: zȕbar, zùbār

  • Slovene: zǫ̑ber (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zubr
  • Kashubian: Zębrzе
  • Old Polish: ząbr, ząbrz, zubr
    • Polish: żubr
  • Slovak: zubor
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: žubr, zubr

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