rębika

rębika; rębina Grammatical information: f. ā Proto-Slavic meaning: `rowan tree'

Russian:

rjabíka (dial.) `rowan tree' [f ā];

rjabína `rowan tree' [f ā]

Ukrainian:

rjabýna (dial.) `rowan tree' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

rebika (dial.) `rowan tree' [f ā]

Slovene:

rebíka `rowan tree' [f ā]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: ri(m)ʔb-;; ru(m)ʔb-

Lithuanian:

ìrbė `partridge' [f ē] 1;

irbẽnis `snowball-tree' [m io]

Latvian:

ir̃be `partridge' [f ē];

irbęnājs `snowball-tree' [m o];

rubenis `black grouse' [m io]

Indo-European reconstruction: r(e)mb-

Certainty: -

Page in Pokorny: 334

Comments: Latv. rubenis < *rub- and OIc. rjúpa < *reub- lack the nasal element of *ręb- but nevertheless seem to be cognate. Lith. ráibas, Latv. ràibs `speckled, variegated' (= Ukr. ribyj?) probably belongs here as well. The i : u alternation in the root and the traces of prenasalization (not to mention the *e- of jerębъ) definitely point to a non-Indo-European origin. The u of Latv. rubenis must have been secondarily shortened because in view of Winter's law we would have expected *rūbenis, cf. Lith. ìrbė, Latv. ir̃be `hazel-grouse'.

Other cognates:

OIc. rjúpa `ptarmigan' [f] \{1\}