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that it is of Proto-Slavic origin, meaning "family kinship" or "alliance". Word *sr?b- / *s?rb- roots in Slavic words meaning "to sip, munch", found in Polish s(i)erbac, Russian serbat', and also cognates in non-Slavic languages, such as Lithuanian surbti, Middle German sürfen, which all derive from Indo-European onomatopoeic roots *serbh- / *sirbh- / *surbh- meaning "to sip, to breast-feed, to flow". Thus the basis of the ethnonym lies in "milk kinship"

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