ѫжь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ǫžь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis.

Noun

ѫжь (ǫžĭ) m

1. snake

Descendants

• Belarusian: вуж (vuž)
• Russian: уж (už)
• Ukrainian: вуж (vuž)

References

vol=3 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893–1912) “ѫжь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences