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I believe it's a similar thing. Semi-educated guess based on historical facts: Because of various (not least religious) reasons, Czech-speaking intelligentsia
by pauke 3y ago
I believe it's a similar thing.
Semi-educated guess based on historical facts:
Because of various (not least religious) reasons, Czech-speaking intelligentsia pretty much ceased to exist mid-17th century (fact, replaced by German/Latin) and only actual serfs spoke Czech, work and robota became defacto synonym (speculation). And when it became fashionable and cool to speak Czech 100-200 years later for the city-dwellers (fact), they probably felt the need to differentiate whatever they were doing as a job from the definitely uncool farmers of the countryside (speculation).
- int_19h 3y agoThe evolution is the other way around - the original meaning of that root in proto-Slavic was obligatory work, and that one in turn is a derivative of a PIE word with the same meaning. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbota https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orb%D1%8A https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%83%C3%B3rb%CA%B0os https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...