NODE / 0115reconstructedProto-Slavic

*orbota

work; hard or obligatory labor

DATE: Proto-Slavic prehistory
SENSE: default
FAMILY: Indo-European / Slavic
CANONICAL KEY: node:17:orbota:reconstructed

Reconstructed from Slavic comparanda.

This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

GO DEEPERderivationprobable

Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European prehistory

*h₃órbʰos

person or property transferred; bereaved person, orphan, or dependent

SOUND: Proto-Slavic *orbota is analyzed within the *orb- family with an abstract noun suffix; comparison reaches the Indo-European *h₃orbʰ- family.
MEANING: Transfer of social status, dependency, bereavement, slavery, and obligatory labor form a reconstructed semantic network—not a single literal definition.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster · Slavic etymological lexicography
CONFIDENCE: probable — The family connection is strong; individual semantic bridges remain reconstructed.

Orphan — Indo-European EtymologysupportsIndo-European *h₃órbhos family

Connects Old Church Slavic rabŭ and the wider status-transfer family.

ORIGINAL ↗

robota — Słownik etymologicznysupports*orbota

Proto-Slavic labor noun.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 99 ↗

DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

DESCENDANTinheritanceprobable

Czech · Czech historical vocabulary

robota

compulsory labor, corvée, drudgery

SOUND: Czech robota continues the reconstructed Slavic form with loss of the initial vowel and regular West Slavic development.
MEANING: Obligatory work and drudgery preserve the inherited labor field.
SCHOLAR: Slavic etymological lexicography
CONFIDENCE: probable — The Proto-Slavic form is reconstructed from multiple Slavic languages.

robota — Słownik etymologicznysupports*orbota

Slavic etymological reconstruction.

ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 98 ↗

TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES: 2
REVIEWED EDGES: 2
DEEPEST PATH: 2
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

robot2 connected nodes

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01inheritanceprobable

Proto-Slavic*orbota→Czech · Czech historical vocabularyrobotacompulsory labor, corvée, drudgery

SOUND: Czech robota continues the reconstructed Slavic form with loss of the initial vowel and regular West Slavic development.
MEANING: Obligatory work and drudgery preserve the inherited labor field.

Slavic etymological lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 98 ↗

robota — Słownik etymologiczny · *orbota ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

STEP 02creative coinageestablished

Czechrobota→Present-Day English · 1922–todayrobotan artificial worker; later an automatic or programmable machine

SOUND: Josef Čapek suggested robot from Czech robota; English received the coined form through Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and its translation.
MEANING: Compulsory human labor was reassigned to artificial workers, then generalized to automatic machines.

Merriam-Webster editors1 CITATIONEDGE 97 ↗

Robot — Word History · Did You Know and Word History ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.

That is expected for a reconstructed form: the node is inferred from comparison, not quoted from a surviving occurrence.

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

03robot*orbota · established