Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ryba

Etymology
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The central Indo-European word for "fish" (yielding Ancient Greek, Lithuanian , Old Armenian ) would have given Proto-Slavic v-stem  (genitive , accusative ), and was, as the theory goes, avoided by fishermen due to taboo, or because it would have sounded too similar to the verb.

Some of the proposed etymologies include:
 * Toporov: From Early Proto-Slavic, which is then comparable to , with fish scales being the semantic connection. For a similar development compare , originally "the colorful/variegated one" <.
 * Loewenthal: From earlier, but instead from , akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Doubted by Vasmer.
 * Vaillant: Perhaps originally a collection/action noun from, initially referring to the process “fishing” and later (by abstraction) to the yield “fish”.
 * Mladenov: Akin to 🇨🇬,, from 🇨🇬.
 * Jakobson, Schmalstieg, Snoj: From, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and perhaps akin to 🇨🇬, , with a rare metathesis *ūr- > *rū- + the suffix for forming abstract nouns.

Early scholars (Uhlenbeck, Berneker, Mikkola, Walde-Hofmann) had tentatively compared the Slavic word with 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬, which nowadays are commonly viewed as unrelated.

Noun

 * 1) fish

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