- doba
- doba
Grammatical information: f. ā
Proto-Slavic meaning: `time'
Page in Trubačev: V 38-39Church Slavic:doba `use, advantage' [f ā]Russian:dóba (dial.) `time, measure' [f ā]Ukrainian:dobá `twenty-four hours' [f ā]Czech:doba `time' [f ā]Polish:doba `twenty-four hours, time' [f ā]Serbo-Croatian:dȍba `time' [f ā];Čak. dȍba (Vrgada) `time' [f ā];Čak. dobȁ (Orbanići) `time, season, point of time' [f ā], dȍbo [Accs]Slovene:dóba `time, period' [f ā];dǫ̑b `time' [f i]Bulgarian:dóba `time' [f ā]Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: dobaʔLithuanian:dabà `nature, habit, character' [f ā];dabar̃ `now' [adv]Latvian:daba `manner, habit, character' [f ā]Comments: The root is best reconstructed as *dʰabʰ-, with "European a", cf. Lat. faber `craftsman, artisan'.Other cognates:Go. gadaban `happen, be suitable' [verb]
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