Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьsъ

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 edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

*ovь̀sъ m[1]

  1. oats

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “овёс”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References edit

  1. 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, →ISSN, page 384:m. o (b) ‘oats’