въдова

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьdova, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognate with English widow, German Witwe, French veuve, Spanish viuda, Italian vedova, Hindi विद्वा (vidvā).

Noun

въдова • (vŭdova) f

1. widow

Declension

Declension of въдова (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	въдова vŭdova	въдовѣ vŭdově	въдовꙑ vŭdovy
genitive	въдовꙑ vŭdovy	въдовоу vŭdovu	въдовъ vŭdovŭ
dative	въдовѣ vŭdově	въдовама vŭdovama	въдовамъ vŭdovamŭ
accusative	въдовѫ vŭdovǫ	въдовѣ vŭdově	въдовꙑ vŭdovy
instrumental	въдовоѭ vŭdovojǫ	въдовама vŭdovama	въдовами vŭdovami
locative	въдовѣ vŭdově	въдовоу vŭdovu	въдовахъ vŭdovaxŭ
vocative	въдово vŭdovo	въдовѣ vŭdově	въдовꙑ vŭdovy

Descendants

• Bulgarian: вдовица (vdovica)
• Russian: вдова (vdova)
• Serbo-Croatian: udova

References

• “въдова”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
• Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2016), “vъdova”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 18 (větъ – zakonъ), Brno: Tribun EU, →ISBN, page 1114