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-SlavicEdit

EtymologyEdit

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]

NounEdit

*ovь̀sъ m[1]

  1. oats

DeclensionEdit

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DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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, page 384: “m. o (b) ‘oats’”