либь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

First attested in c. 1110‒1118 in Primary Chronicle. Borrowed from Old Novgorodian *либь (*libĭ),[1] from Finnic languages, seems from Estonian liivi (“Livs, Livonians”), further origins unclear. Cognate with Latvian lībis, Lithuanian lybis, Livonian lībi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlibɪ/→/ˈlʲibʲɪ/→/ˈlʲibʲ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈlibɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈlʲibʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈlʲibʲ/

  • Hyphenation: ли‧бь

Noun

либь (libĭ) f[2][3]

  1. (collective) Livs, Livonians (a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the coast of the Gulf of Riga, i.e. Livonia)

References

  1. ^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), “§2.16”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 55
  2. ^ Vasmer, Max (1967), “либь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Е – Муж), Moscow: Progress, page 493
  3. ^ Preobrazhensky, A. G. (1910–1914), “либь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – О), numbers 1–9, Moscow: G. Lissner & D. Sobko Publishing House, page 451
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