bȁba

bȁba Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `old woman'

Page in Trubačev: I 105-108

Old Church Slavic:

baba `nurse' [f ā]

Russian:

bába `grandmother, married peasant woman' [f ā]

Czech:

bába `grandmother, midwife, old woman' [f ā];

baba (pej.) `old woman' [f ā]

Slovak:

baba `grandmother, midwife, old woman' [f ā]

Polish:

baba `grandmother, midwife, old woman, mother-in-law' [f ā]

Slovincian:

bãbă `old woman, grannie, female (of an animal)' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

bȁba `grandmother, midwife, nurse, mother-in-law' [f ā];

Čak. bȁba (Vrgada) `grandmother, midwife' [f ā];

Čak. bȁba (Novi) `midwife' [f ā]

Slovene:

bába `grandmother, midwife' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

bába `grandmother, old woman, mother-in-law' [f ā]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: báʔbaʔ

Lithuanian:

bóba `old woman' [f ā] 1

Latvian:

bãba `old woman' [f ā]

Certainty: -

Page in Pokorny: 91

Other cognates:

MHG bâbe, bôbe `old woman' [f] \{1\}

Notes:

\{1\} The Middle High German word is assumed to be a borrowing from Slavic (Sɫawski SP I: 171).