Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/uvy

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

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uwái, from Proto-Indo-European *uwáy.

Interjection

*uvy

1. alas!

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: оувꙑ (uvy)
    • Russian: увы́ (uvý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оувꙑ (uvy)

    Glagolitic script: ⱆⰲⱏⰹ (uvy)

    • Church Slavonic: оува (uva)
  • Bulgarian: уви́ (uví)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: авај

    Latin script: avaj

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ouvé, óvé, ove
  • Slovak: ou

Further reading

• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ova / *ovo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 185
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “увы́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “овва́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka