Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьnъ

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas. By surface analysis, *ovь (sheep) +‎ *-ьnъ.

Noun

*ovь̀nъ m[1][2]

  1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

Declension of *ovь̀nъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *ovь̀nъ *ovьnà *ovьnì
genitive *ovьnà *ovьnù *ovь̀nъ
dative *ovьnù *ovьnòma *ovьnòmъ
accusative *ovь̀nъ *ovьnà *ovьnỳ
instrumental *ovьnъ̀mь, *ovьnòmь* *ovьnòma *ovь̀ny
locative *ovьně̀ *ovьnù *ovь̀něxъ
vocative *ovьne *ovьnà *ovьnì

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

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: овьнъ (ovĭnŭ), овенъ (ovenŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: овьнъ (ovĭnŭ)
    • Bulgarian: ове́н (ovén), ове́нъ (ovén); о́вен (óven), уве́н (uvén) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: овен (oven)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: о́ван
      Latin script: óvan
    • Slovene: óvən (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: oven (obsolete)
    • Old Polish: owien
    • Kashubian: òwien (archaic)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ovьnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384
  2. ^ Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ovьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 222