волъ

See also: воль

Old Church Slavonic

волъ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vòlъ.

Noun

волъ • (volŭ) m

1. ox
   • from the Physiologus:

     Волъ ес‘ть на слꙋжбꙋ ч͝лвкомъ. во срⷣцӥ своемъ беꙁꙁлобна вещь.

     Volŭ es‘tĭ na službu č͝lvkomŭ. vo srⷣci svojemŭ bezzlobna veštĭ.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of волъ (u-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	волъ volŭ	волꙑ voly	волове volove
genitive	волоу volu	воловоу volovu	воловъ volovŭ
dative	волови volovi	волъма volŭma	волъмъ volŭmŭ
accusative	волъ volŭ	волꙑ voly	волꙑ voly
instrumental	волъмь volŭmĭ	волъма volŭma	волъми volŭmi
locative	волоу volu	воловоу volovu	волъхъ volŭxŭ
vocative	волоу volu	волꙑ voly	волове volove

Old Ruthenian

волы

Alternative forms

• вѡлъ (vôl), вулъ (vul) — Old Ukrainian
• воль (volʹ), въ́лъ (vol)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic волъ (volŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vòlъ. Cognate with Russian вол (vol), Old Czech vól.

Noun

волъ • (vol) m animal

1. ox, bullock

Descendants

• Belarusian: вол (vol); вюл (vjul) (dialectal)
• Carpathian Rusyn: вул (vul)
• Ukrainian: віл (vil)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “волъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 303
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “вулъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 355
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*волъ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 194
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “волъ, воль, вълъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 217
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1984), “волъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 4 (вкупитися – вспевати), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 156

Russian

Noun

волъ • (vol) m anim (genitive вола́, nominative plural волы́, genitive plural воло́въ, relational adjective воло́вій)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of вол (vol).

Declension

Pre-reform declension of волъ (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	во́лъ vól	волы́ volý
genitive	вола́ volá	воло́въ volóv
dative	волу́ volú	вола́мъ volám
accusative	вола́ volá	воло́въ volóv
instrumental	воло́мъ volóm	вола́ми volámi
prepositional	волѣ́ volě́	вола́хъ voláx