Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьsъ
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]
Declension
| 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
- *ovьsiga
- *ovьsěnъ
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)
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 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’”