gъrba

gъrbъ; gъrba Grammatical information: m. o; f. ā Proto-Slavic meaning: `hump'

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Church Slavic:

grobъ (Bon.) `back, hump' [m o];

grobь (Pog.) `back, hump' [m o]

Russian:

gorb `hump, (dial.) back' [m o]

Czech:

hrb `hump, mound, lump' [m o]

Slovak:

hrb `hump, mound, lump' [m o]

Polish:

garb `hump' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

gȓb `back' [m o];

gȑba `hump' [f ā]

Slovene:

gȓb `hump, back, wrinkle' [m o];

gŕba `hump, back, wrinkle' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

grăb `back' [m o];

gắrba `hump' [f ā]

Old Prussian:

garbis [grabis] (EV) `hill' \{1\}

Certainty: -

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Comments: In my opinion, it is preferable to separate *gъrbъ from -> *grǫbъ, *grubъ `coarse, rude'. Of course, the roots may have influenced one another. We may reconstruct *grbʰ-, if we wish to stick to Indo-European terms, perhaps an enlarged of a root meaning `bend' (cf. Mažiulis PKEŽ IV: 324-326).

Notes:

\{1\} The emendation is justified by many place-names, e.g. Gailgarben or Geylegarben `Weissenberg'.