Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-oba

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

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Suffix

*-oba f

Deadjectival, forming abstract nouns; -ness.
Synonyms: *-ota, *-ostь, *-ь, *-ina, *-yni, *-ědь

*bělъ (“white”) → *běloba (“whiteness”)

*blědъ (“pale”) → *blědoba (“paleness”)

*gnusъ → *gnusoba

*gъrdъ → *gъrdoba

*xudъ (“thin, feable”) → *xudoba (“thinness”)

*xvorъ (“ill”) → *xvoroba (“illness”)

*lěnъ (“lazy”) → *lěnoba (“laziness”)

*lьgъ → *lьgoba

*milъ → *miloba

*mъdьlъ (“weak”) → *mъdьloba (“weakness”)

*zъlъ → *zъloba
?
*gonъ, *goniti → *gonoba

*kukъ → *kukoba

*lěka／*lěkъ → *lěkoba

*ǫtro → *ǫtroba

Declension

Declension of *-oba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*-oba	*-obě	*-oby
genitive	*-oby	*-obu	*-obъ
dative	*-obě	*-obama	*-obamъ
accusative	*-obǫ	*-obě	*-oby
instrumental	-obojǫ, -obǫ^**	*-obama	*-obami
locative	*-obě	*-obu	-obasъ, -obaxъ^*
vocative	*-obo	*-obě	*-oby

^* -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).

Derived terms

Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-oba

Descendants

Church Slavonic: -оба (-oba)

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -оба (-oba)
  - Belarusian: -о́ба (-óba)
  - Russian: -оба́ (-obá), -о́ба (-óba)
  - Ukrainian: -о́ба (-óba)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: -о̀ба
  
  Latin script: -òba
- Slovene: -óba
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: -oba
  - Czech: -oba
- Polish: -oba
- Slovak: -oba
- Slovincian: -oba
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: -oba
  - Lower Sorbian: -oba

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běloba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 68
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blědoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 111
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gnusoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 182
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gonobiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 24
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrdoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 205
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xudoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 110
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoroba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 128
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kukoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 90
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lěkoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 198
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lěnoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 207
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lьgoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 65
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*miloba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 36
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъdьloba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 209