Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korabľь

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 earlier *karabja, borrowed from Ancient Greek καράβιον (karábion) or κάραβος (kárabos, “boat, crab, beetle”) (Modern Greek καράβι (karávi, “ship, boat”)). Could have been influenced by or confused with *korbъ (“basket”).

According to ESSJa, from adjective *korb-jo-, from *korbъ.

Noun

*korãbľь m

1. ship

Inflection

Declension of *korãbľь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korãbľь	*korābľà	*korābľì
genitive	*korābľà	*korābľù	*korãbľь
dative	*korābľù	*korābľèma	*korãbľemъ
accusative	*korãbľь	*korābľà	*korābľę̇̀
instrumental	*korābľь̀mь, *korābľèmь*	*korābľèma	*korãbľi
locative	*korābľì	*korābľù	*korãbľixъ
vocative	*korabľu	*korābľà	*korābľì

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: корабль (korablĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: корабль (korablʹ)
      • Belarusian: карабе́ль (karabjélʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: корабе́ль (korabélʹ)
      • Ukrainian: корабе́ль (korabélʹ)
    • Russian: кора́бль (koráblʹ), кора́бель (korábelʹ) (dialectal) (see there for further descendants)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: корабл҄ь (korablʹĭ), корабь (korabĭ)

  • Bulgarian: ко́раб (kórab)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: kòrablja

    Cyrillic script: ко̀рабља

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: koráb
  • Polish: korab (genitive: korabia)
  • Slovak: koráb
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: korabje

• Non-Slavic:
• → Romanian: corabie

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korabjь / *korabъ / *korabь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 44