Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skoba
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Uncertain origin. The lemma exhibits semantic and phonetic parallels with Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Lithuanian kablỹs (“cramp”) (both from Lithuanian kabėti (“to hang”)), Latvian kablis (“clasp”), which generally point towards an origin from pre-Balto-Slavic **(s)kebʰ-. Indo-European data outside of Balto-Slavic, however, alludes an origin from a nasal root with glottalic coda *(s)kemb- (“to bend”), which gave Lithuanian kìbti (“to hang up”), Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hump”) (0-grade), Proto-Germanic *hampą (“happiness”) (o-grade), Latin scamnum (“bench”) (and its diminutive Latin scabellum), Ancient Greek κόμβος (kómbos, “node”), Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá, “pole”), and plausibly Proto-Germanic *skup- (“barn, shop”).
It is possible that the Slavic root was denasalized under the same conditions as *voda < proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō, which blocked the effect of Winter's law.
Noun
*skobà f
Inflection
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *skobà | *skȍbě | *skȍby |
genitive | *skobý | *skobù | *skòbъ |
dative | *skobě̀ | *skobàma | *skobàmъ |
accusative | *skȍbǫ | *skȍbě | *skȍby |
instrumental | *skobojǫ́ | *skobàma | *skobàmi |
locative | *skȍbě | *skobù | *skobàsъ, *skobàxъ* |
vocative | *skobo | *skȍbě | *skȍby |
Related terms
Descendants
- Old East Slavic: скоба (skoba)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скоба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress