Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьsъ

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-Balto-Slavic *awiś- ~ *awiź-, either from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-iǵʰ(s)-eh₂ or from a substrate language whence also the Latin cognate: Cognate with Latvian àuzas, Lithuanian avižà, Old Prussian wyse, and Latin avena.[1]

Noun

*ovь̀sъ m[1]

  1. oats

Declension

Declension of *ovь̀sъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *ovь̀sъ *ovьsà *ovьsì
genitive *ovьsà *ovьsù *ovь̀sъ
dative *ovьsù *ovьsòma *ovьsòmъ
accusative *ovь̀sъ *ovьsà *ovьsỳ
instrumental *ovьsъ̀mь, *ovьsòmь* *ovьsòma *ovь̀sy
locative *ovьsě̀ *ovьsù *ovь̀sěxъ
vocative *ovьse *ovьsà *ovьsì

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: овьсъ (ovĭsŭ)
    • Belarusian: авёс (avjós); аўёс (aŭjós) (dialectal); авес (avjes) (dialectal)
    • Russian: овёс (ovjós), овёсъ (ovjós)Pre-reform orthography (1918)
      • Azerbaijani: havosdialectal
      • Kildin Sami: оввесь (ovvjes’)
      • Mongolian: овъёос (ovʺjoos)
      • Yakut: эбиэс (ebies)
    • Ukrainian: ове́с (ovés)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “овёс”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ovь̀sъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384:m. o (b) ‘oats’