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SorbEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Borrowed from German Sorbe, from Lower Sorbian Serb, the self-appointed name. Doublet of Serb.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sorbEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
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Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SorbEnglish · e-38700-2458
Sorb, sorb, n. the mountain-ash or service-tree.—ns. Sorb′-apple, the fruit of the service-tree; Sor′bāte, Sor′bin or Sor′bine, Sor′bite.—adj. Sor′bic, pertaining to, or from, the sorb. [Fr.,—L. sorbus.]
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Sorb, sorb, n. one of a Slavonic race in Saxony and the neighbouring parts of Prussia.—Also Wend, or Lusatian Wend.—adj. Sor′bian, pertaining to the Sorbs or their language.—n. a Sorb, or the Sorbian tongue.—adj. and n.
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