English
izba
Izba comes from Russian изба́ ‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’, and goes back to Old East Slavic изъба.
- Old East Slavicmodernизъбаizŭba
- Russianmodernизба́izbá‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962izba
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old East Slavicmodernизъбаizŭba
- Russianmodernизба́izbá‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962izba
Earliest quotation: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov: “From the doctor's I flitted over to a travel…”
Every English word from Old East Slavic изъба
Today it means
noun a Russian log hut
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old East Slavic изъба / izba