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

Etymology

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.

Noun

*ovь̀sъ m

1. oats

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ovь̀sъ	*ovьsà	*ovьsì
genitive	*ovьsà	*ovьsù	*ovь̀sъ
dative	*ovьsù	*ovьsòma	*ovьsòmъ
accusative	*ovь̀sъ	*ovьsà	*ovьsỳ
instrumental	*ovьsъ̀mь, *ovьsòmь*	*ovьsòma	*ovь̀sy
locative	*ovьsě̀	*ovьsù	*ovь̀sěxъ
vocative	*ovьse	*ovьsà	*ovьsì

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

Derived terms

• *ovьsiga
• *ovьsěnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: овьсъ (ovĭsŭ)
  • Belarusian: авёс (avjós); аўёс (aŭjós) (dialectal); авес (avjes) (dialectal)
  • Russian: овёс (ovjós), овёсъ (ovjós) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Kildin Sami: оввесь (ovvjes’)
    • → Mongolian: овъёос (ovʺjoos)
    • → Yakut: эбиэс (ebies)
  • Ukrainian: ове́с (ovés)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ове́с (ovés)
  • Macedonian: овес (oves)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀вас

    Latin script: òvas

  • Slovene: óvəs (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: oves
    • Czech: oves
  • Kashubian: óws
  • Polish: owies
  • Slovak: ovos
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: hows
    • Upper Sorbian: wows

Further reading

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