hodváb

Slovak

Etymology

From late Proto-Slavic *gъd(o)vabjь, borrowed from an Old Germanic language like Old Saxon godowebbi or Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌱𐌹 (*gudawabi). The Old Germanic word is a compound of *gudą (“god”) +‎ *wabją (“web”) with the meaning “god cloth, cloth for religious use”. Compare cognates Czech hedvábí, Russian and Serbian Old Church Slavonic годовабль (godovablĭ).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɔdvaːp], (in bound positions except before unvoiced consonants) [ˈɦɔdvaːb]
  • Rhymes: -aːp
  • Hyphenation: hod‧váb

Noun

hodváb m inan (genitive singular hodvábu, nominative plural hodváby, genitive plural hodvábov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. silk

Declension
Declension of hodváb
singular plural
nominative hodváb hodváby
genitive hodvábu hodvábov
dative hodvábu hodvábom
accusative hodváb hodváby
locative hodvábe hodváboch
instrumental hodvábom hodvábmi

Derived terms

References
  1. Králik, Ľubor (2016) “hodváb”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 202
  2. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “годовабль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Further reading
  • “hodváb”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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