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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/snubiti

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *snǫbiti (per Vasmer, secondary dialectal variant)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)newbʰ- (“to wed, to match”), possibly related to *(s)neh₁- (“to fasten, to thread”). Cognate with Latin nūbō (“to get married”) and akin to Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (númphē, “bride”).

Verb

*snubìti impf[1]

  1. to wed, to matchmake
    Synonyms: *svatovati, *sъvoditi
  2. to betroth

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • *snubьcь, *snubačь, *snubokъ (“matchmaker”)
  • *děvisnubъ, *děvosnubъ (“escort of the bride”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: снубити (snubiti)
      • Russian: сну́бить (snúbitʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: сноубити (snubiti) (Russian recension)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: сну́бити
      Latin script: snúbiti
    • Slovene: snúbiti, snóbiti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “снубить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “snubiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *snubi̋ti”
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