Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/drebězgъ

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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.

Proto-Slavic

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Etymology

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Equivalent to *drеbь (debris) +‎ *-zgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dreb, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (to fracture). Cognate with Lithuanian drebė̃znos (remnant, piece) and possibly Latvian drubazas.[1]

Parallel to Proto-Slavic *drobězgъ (crumbs, small fry).

Noun

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*drebězgъ m

  1. fragment, shard
  2. (onomatopoeic) tinkling, sound of breaking

Alternative forms

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Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: дре́безг (drébezg)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дре́безг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*drebězgъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 105

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “drebėznos”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 137