Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/okovъ

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 *okovati (“to shackle, chain”).

Noun

*okòvъ m

1. (plural only) shackles, chains

Inflection

Declension of *okòvъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*okòvъ	*okovà	*okovì
genitive	*okovà	*okovù	*okòvъ
dative	*okovù	*okovòma	*okovòmъ
accusative	*okòvъ	*okovà	*okovỳ
instrumental	*okovъ̀mь, *okovòmь*	*okovòma	*okòvy
locative	*okově̀	*okovù	*okòvěxъ
vocative	*okove	*okovà	*okovì

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: оков (okov), оковы (okovy)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: окови (okovi)

  • Bulgarian: окови pl (okovi)
  • Macedonian: окови pl (okovi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: оков

    Latin script: okov

  • Slovene: okȍv (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: okovy pl
  • Polish: okowy pl
  • Slovak: okovy pl

Further reading

• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “оковы”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa