Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orba

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

Noun

*orba f[1]

feminine of *orbъ: female servant, female slave

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Note that the descendants exhibit a metathesis of the liquid r (*or- > ro-; ra-):

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: роба (roba)
  - Old Ruthenian: ро́ба (róba)
    - Belarusian: ро́ба (róba) (obsolete)
    - Ukrainian: ро́ба (róba, “a hardworking woman”)
- Old Novgorodian: роба (roba)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: раба (raba)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱃⰰⰱⰰ (raba)
  - → Old East Slavic: раба (raba)
    - Old Ruthenian: раба́ (rabá)
      - Belarusian: раба́ (rabá)
      - Ukrainian: раба́ (rabá)
    - Russian: раба́ (rabá)
West Slavic:
- Czech: roba (“wife”)
- Old Polish: roba (“female servant or slave, wife, disorderly woman, sow”)
  - Polish: roba (dialectal or obsolete)

References

Olander, Thomas (2001), “?orba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b slavinde (PR 135)”

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[1] Olander, Thomas (2001), “?orba”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b slavinde (PR 135)”