bobă

Polabian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

bobă f

  1. midwife
    Synonym: bopkă
nouns
  • bopkă f (“midwife”)

References
  • Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “babə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), issue 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 22
  • Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “bobă//bobo”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 39
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Boba, Bobo”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 65
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