Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/baba

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

*bàba f [1][2]

Inflection

Declension of *bàba (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*bàba	*bàbě	*bàby
Accusative	*bàbǫ	*bàbě	*bàby
Genitive	*bàby	*bàbu	*bàbъ
Locative	*bàbě	*bàbu	bàbasъ, bàbaxъ^*
Dative	*bàbě	*bàbama	*bàbamъ
Instrumental	bàbojǫ, bàbǭ^**	*bàbama	*bàbamī
Vocative	*bàbo	*bàbě	*bàby

^* -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

*babakъ
*baběti
*babica
*babina
*babinъ
*babiti

*babiťь
*babuxa
*baburъ
*babъka
*babъkъ
*babyka

*babьcь
*babьjь
*babьnikъ
*babьskъjь
*kudibaba

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: баба (baba)
  - Belarusian: ба́ба (bába)
  - Russian: ба́ба (bába)
  - Rusyn: баба (baba)
  - Ukrainian: ба́ба (bába)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: баба (baba)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰱⰰⰱⰰ (baba)
- Bulgarian: ба́ба (bába)
- Macedonian: ба́ба (bába)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ба̏ба
  
  Latin: bȁba
  - Chakavian (Novi): bȁba (“midwife”)
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): bȁba (“grandmother, midwife”)
- Slovene: bába (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: bába, baba
- Kashubian: baba
- Polabian: bobo, babă, bobă
- Polish: baba
- Silesian: baba
- Slovak: baba
- Slovincian: bãbă
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: baba
  - Upper Sorbian: baba
→ Aromanian: babã
→ Greek: βαβά (vavá), βάβα (váva)
→ Hungarian: bába
→ Middle High German: bābe, bōbe
→ Romanian: babă
→ Yiddish: באָבע‎ (bobe)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bàba”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 32: “f. ā (a) ‘old woman’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “baba -y”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 22, 69, 166, 199; PR 132; MP 17; RPT 110)”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bàba”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 32: “f. ā (a) ‘old woman’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “baba -y”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 22, 69, 166, 199; PR 132; MP 17; RPT 110)”