rębъkъ

rębь; rębъkъ Grammatical information: m. jo??; m. o Proto-Slavic meaning: `hazel-grouse, partridge'

Russian:

rjab' (Dal': eccl., N. dial.) `sand-grouse, hazel-grouse' [m jo];

rjabók (dial.) `hazel-grouse' [m o] \{1\}

Slovene:

rę̑b `partridge' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: re/imbo-

Lithuanian:

ìrbė `partridge' [f ē] 1;

jerubė̃, jerumbė̃ (dial.) `hazel-grouse' [f ē] 3^b

Latvian:

ir̃be `partridge' [f ē];

rubenis `black grouse' [m io]

Indo-European reconstruction: r(e)mb-o-

Certainty: -

Page in Pokorny: 334

Other cognates:

OIc. rjúpa `ptarmigan' [f] \{2\}

Notes:

\{1\} Cf. rjábčik (the Standard Russian form), rjábuška and rjábec or rjabéc `hazel-grouse', rjábka `partridge' (Dal' s.v. rjabyj). The form rjabéc also means `trout'. \{2\} Latv. rubenis < *rub- and OIc. rjúpa < *reub- lack the nasal element of *ręb- and contain u but nevertheless seem to be cognate. Lith. raibas 3/4, Latv. ràibs `speckled, variegated' (Ukr. ribyj?) may belong here as well. The e : eu alternation and the traces of prenasalization (not to mention the *e- of jerębъ etc.) definitely point to a non-Indo-European origin. The u of Latv. rubenis poses a problem because in view of Winter's law we would have expected *rūbenis, cf. Lith. ìrbė, Latv. ir̃be `hazel-grouse'.