erębъ

erębь; erębъ; erębъkъ

Page in Trubačev: I 73-76

Church Slavic:

jarębь (RuCS) `partridge' [m. jo??]

Old Russian:

erjabь, orjabь `partridge' [m. jo??]

Czech:

jeřáb `rowan-tree;

crane, (arch.) `partridge' [m o];

jeřábek `hazel-grouse' [m o]

Slovak:

jerab `rowan-tree' [m o]

Polish:

jarząb (arch., dial.) `rowan-tree (dial.), hazel-grouse (OPl.)' [m o];

jarząbek, jerząbek (dial.) `hazel-grouse' [m o]

Upper Sorbian:

jerjab `hazel-grouse' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȁrēb (dial.) `partridge' [m o];

Čak. ȍreb (Vrgada) `partridge' [m o]

Slovene:

jerę̑b `partridge' [m o];

jarę̑b `partridge' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: erimb-

Lithuanian:

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

Latvian:

ierube (BW) `partridge' [f ē]

Indo-European reconstruction: ermb-o-

Certainty: -

Page in Pokorny: 334

Comments: Rather than reconstructing *(j)arębъ etc. ( Trubačëv I: 73), I assume that *ja- arose secondarily from *je- (cf. Andersen 1996: 136 ff.). We seem to be dealing with a root *(e)r(m)b- (with a variant *(e)ru(m)b-) of undoubtedly non-Indo-European origin.

Other cognates:

OIc. jarpi `hazel-grouse'

;

OIc. jarpr `brown' [adj] \{1\}