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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xybati

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

Equivalent to *xybъ (“wobble”) +‎ *-ati. Traditionally viewed as cognate with Sanskrit क्षुभ्यति (kṣubhyati, “to shake, be agitated”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *kʷsewbʰ-.

Compare also Lithuanian sūbóti (“to swing”) (also compared with synonymous Proto-Slavic *zybati), Proto-Germanic *skupjaną (“to scoff; to skip”).

Verb

*xybàti impf (perfective *xybnǫti)[1][2]

  1. to sway, to make unsteady, to perturb

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *xybadlo (“pendelum”)
  • *xybьstvo (“tumult, commotion”)
  • *xybiti, *xyběti (“to swindle, to confuse”)
    • *xyba (“fault, mistake”)
    • *xybina (“confusion, error”)
  • *xybъkъ (“perturbed”)
  • *šibati (“to beat, to whip”)
  • *xvěti (“to sway”) (possibly)
  • *zybati (“to rock, to oscillate”) (possibly)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: хиба́ть (xibátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: хиба́ти (xybáty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Slovene: híbati (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: chybati
    • Polish: chybać (obsolete, dialectal)
    • Slovak: chýbať
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: chybaś
      • Upper Sorbian: chybać

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хибать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xybati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 153
  • “suboti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*xybati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 207: “v. ‘sway’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “híba”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *xyba̋ti”
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