Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫbota

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

Borrowed from Latin (either Medieval Latin sabbatum or Vulgar Latin *sambatum), from Ancient Greek σάββᾱτον (sábbāton), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (šabbāṯ, “sabbath”).

Noun

*sǫbota f

Saturday

Declension

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Descendants

The East and South Slavic languages have a form that derives from a nasal variant *sǫbota. The West Slavic forms have no nasal, *sobota.

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: субота (subota)
  - Belarusian: субо́та (subóta)
  - Russian: суббо́та (subbóta)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: субо́та (subóta)
  - Ukrainian: субо́та (subóta)
  - → Karelian: suovatta
    - → Kildin Sami: сӯвведҍ (sūvv’ed’)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: сѫбота (sǫbota), собота (sobota)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱄⱘⰱⱁⱅⰰ (sǫbota), ⱄⱆⰱⱁⱅⰰ (subota)
- Bulgarian: съ́бота (sǎ́bota), съ́мбута (sǎ́mbuta) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: сабота (sabota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: су̀бота
  
  Latin script: sùbota
- Slovene: sobọ́ta (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: sobòta
- Old Czech: sobota
  - Czech: sobota
- Old Polish: sobota
  - Masurian: sóbota
  - Polish: sobota
  - Silesian: sobota
- Polabian: sübötă
- Slovak: sobota
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: sobota
  - Upper Sorbian: sobota

Non-Slavic languages:
- → Hungarian: szombat