Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bobъ

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

Etymology

From Early Proto-Slavic *bábu. From Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Old Prussian babo, Latin faba, Proto-Germanic *baunō (whence English bean), Albanian bathë, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós, “lentil”).

Noun

*bòbъ m

1. bean, fava bean

Declension

Declension of *bòbъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bòbъ	*bobà	*bobì
genitive	*bobà	*bobù	*bòbъ
dative	*bobù	*bobòma	*bobòmъ
accusative	*bòbъ	*bobà	*bobỳ
instrumental	*bobъ̀mь, *bobòmь*	*bobòma	*bòby
locative	*bobě̀	*bobù	*bòběxъ
vocative	*bobe	*bobà	*bobì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бобъ (bobŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: бобъ (bob), бѡбъ (bôb) — Middle Ukrainian
      • Belarusian: боб (bob)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: бӱб (büb)
      • Ukrainian: біб (bib)
    • Russian: боб (bob)
  • Old Novgorodian: бобъ (bobŭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: боб (bob)
  • Macedonian: боб (bob)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бо̏б

    Latin script: bȍb

  • Slovene: bòb
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bob
  • Polabian: büb
  • Old Polish: bób
    • Polish: bób
  • Slovak: bôb
  • Slovincian: bób
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bob
    • Upper Sorbian: bob

• → Proto-Finnic: *papu
• → Hungarian: bab
• → Romanian: bob
• → Yiddish: באָב (bob)