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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Compare Middle Persian smwl (*samōr).
Noun
*sobolь m[1]
- (East Slavic) sable (Martes zibellina)
Declension
Declension of *sobolь (soft o-stem)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*sobolь
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*sobola
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*soboli
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| genitive
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*sobola
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*sobolu
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*sobolь
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| dative
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*sobolu
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*sobolema
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*sobolemъ
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| accusative
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*sobolь
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*sobola
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*sobolę̇
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| instrumental
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*sobolьmь, *sobolemь*
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*sobolema
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*soboli
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| locative
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*soboli
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*sobolu
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*sobolixъ
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| vocative
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*sobolu
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*sobola
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*soboli
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* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: соболь (sobolĭ)
- Old Ruthenian: со́боль (sóbolʹ)
- Belarusian: со́баль (sóbalʹ); сабо́ль (sabólʹ) (dialectal)
- Carpathian Rusyn: со́боль (sóbolʹ)
- Ukrainian: со́боль (sóbolʹ)
- → Old Lithuanian: sabalius (since 1620); sãbalas (since mid-17th c.)
- Russian: со́боль (sóbolʹ) (see there for further descendants)
- →? Medieval Latin: sabelinum, sabelinus
- → Old French: sabelin (since 11th c.)
- → Old Polish: soból (since 15th c.)
- Old Novgorodian: соболь (sobolĭ)
- →? Middle Low German: sabel
- → Icelandic: safali
- → Middle Dutch: sabel
- → Old French: sable
- → Middle English: sable
- →? Irish: sáible
- →? Old High German: zobel, tebelus (since 11th c.)
- Middle High German: zobel
- →? Swedish: sobel
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “со́боль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “sobolь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b/a (PR 134)”