въдова

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Old Church Slavonic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *vьdova, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognate with English widow, German Witwe, French veuve, Spanish viuda, Italian vedova, Hindi विद्वा (vidvā).

Noun

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въдова (vŭdovaf

  1. widow

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Bulgarian: вдовица (vdovica)
  • Russian: вдова (vdova)
  • Serbo-Croatian: udova

References

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  • въдова”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
  • Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2016), “vъdova”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 18 (větъ – zakonъ), Brno: Tribun EU, →ISBN, page 1114