Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-oviťь

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Proto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From *-ovъ +‎ *-iťь.

Suffix edit

*-oviťь m

Forms agent nouns
Forms patronyms and metronyms.

Alternative forms edit

*-eviťь

Declension edit

Declension of *-oviťь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*-oviťь	*-oviťa	*-oviťi
genitive	*-oviťa	*-oviťu	*-oviťь
dative	*-oviťu	*-oviťema	*-oviťemъ
accusative	*-oviťь	*-oviťa	*-oviťę̇
instrumental	-oviťьmь, -oviťemь^*	*-oviťema	*-oviťi
locative	*-oviťi	*-oviťu	*-oviťixъ
vocative	*-oviťu	*-oviťa	*-oviťi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms edit

Category Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-oviťь not found

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -овичь (-ovičĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: -овичъ (-ovič)
    - Belarusian: -овіч (-óvič)
    - Russian: -ович (-ovič)
  - Ukrainian: -ович (-ovyč)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: -овић
  
  Latin script: -ović
- Slovene: -ovič
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: -owic
  - Polish: -owicz (influenced by the east slavic forms)
  - ⇒ Polish: -owice
  - ⇒ Polish: -owica

Non-Slavic:
- → German: -owitz