Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/govędo

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (cattle) +‎ *-ędo.

Noun

*govę̀do n[1]

  1. bull, ox
  2. (collective) cattle

Inflection

Declension of *govę̀do (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *govę̀do *govę̀dě *govę̀da
genitive *govę̀da *govę̀du *govę̀dъ
dative *govę̀du *govę̀doma *govę̀domъ
accusative *govę̀do *govę̀dě *govę̀da
instrumental *govę̀dъmь, *govę̀domь* *govę̀doma *govę̀dȳ
locative *govę̀dě *govę̀du *govę̀dě̄xъ
vocative *govę̀do *govę̀dě *govę̀da

* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Coordinate terms

  • *govędь

Derived terms

  • *govьno (shit)
  • >? *gumьno (threshing floor)

Descendants

  • Church Slavonic: говѧдо (govędo) (Russian)
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: говѧдо (govędo)
      • Belarusian: гавя́да (havjáda), гаўя́да (haŭjáda)
      • Russian: говя́до (govjádo)
      • Ukrainian: гов'я́до (hovʺjádo)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: говѧдо (govędo)
      Glagolitic: ⰳⱁⰲⱔⰴⱁ (govędo)
    • Bulgarian: гове́до (govédo), гове́ндо (govéndo) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: говедо (govedo)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: го̀ведо
      Latin script: gòvedo
    • Slovene: govẹ̑do (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “говядо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “говядина”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 197
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*govędo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 75
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “жук”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 307

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*govę̀do”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181:n. o (a) ‘head of cattle’