English
chleb
Chleb comes from Polish chleb ‘bread’, and goes back to Proto-Slavic *xlě̀bъ.
- Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*xlě̀bъ‘bread’reconstructed
- Old Polishmodernchleb
- Polishmodernsame form‘bread’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*xlě̀bъ‘bread’reconstructed
- Old Polishmodernchleb
- Polishmodernsame form‘bread’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997same form
Earliest quotation: 1997, Noëlle Janaczewska, Historia: “Upstairs at the Polish Club / Among plastic palms…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
cycle, polar, pole, columnist, bazaar, accolade, pulley, bucolic, 8 more
through Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz ‘bread’
Today it means
noun Polish bread.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Slavic *xlě̀bъ / chleb