Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbyni

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

By surface analysis, *orbъ +‎ *-yni.

Noun

*orbyni f^[1]

female slave

Declension

Declension of *orbyni (ī-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orbyni	*orbyňi	*orbyňę̇
genitive	*orbyňę̇	*orbyňu	*orbyňь
dative	*orbyňi	*orbyňama	*orbyňamъ
accusative	*orbyňǫ	*orbyňi	*orbyňę̇
instrumental	orbyňejǫ, orbyňǫ^**	*orbyňama	*orbyňami
locative	*orbyňi	*orbyňu	orbyňasъ, orbyňaxъ^*
vocative	*orbyňe	*orbyňi	*orbyňę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: рабꙑн҄и (rabynʹi)
  - → Belarusian: рабы́ня (rabýnja)
  - → Russian: рабы́ня (rabýnja)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: робѝня (robìnja)
- Macedonian: рабина (rabina)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ро̀биња
  
  Latin script: ròbinja
- ⇒ Slovene: rọ̑binja (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: robyně
  - Czech: robině
- ⇒ Slovak: rabyňa

References

^ Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbyni”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 133

[1] Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbyni”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 133

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