Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovoťe

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *ovoťь, *ovoťьje

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg-.

Noun

*ovoťe n

1. fruit
2. vegetable

Declension

Declension of *ovoťe (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ovoťe	*ovoťi	*ovoťa
genitive	*ovoťa	*ovoťu	*ovoťь
dative	*ovoťu	*ovoťema	*ovoťemъ
accusative	*ovoťe	*ovoťi	*ovoťa
instrumental	*ovoťьmь, *ovoťemь*	*ovoťema	*ovoťi
locative	*ovoťi	*ovoťu	*ovoťixъ
vocative	*ovoťe	*ovoťi	*ovoťa

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: овочь (ovočĭ)
    • Ukrainian: о́воч m (óvoč, “vegetable”)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: овощь (ovoštĭ), овоще (ovošte)
    • → Russian: о́вощ m (óvošč, “vegetable”)
  • Bulgarian: ово́щия pl (ovóštija)
  • Macedonian: овошје (ovošje), овоште (ovošte) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: во̏ће

    Latin script: vȍće

  • Slovene: ovóčje

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ovoce
    • Czech: ovoce
      • Moravian : ovoce
  • Old Polish: owoc
    • Polish: owoc
  • Silesian: ôwoc
  • Slovak: ovoc, ovocie
  • Slovincian: u̯ovωc

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg et al., editors (1974–2021), “*ovoktь/*ovokt(j)e”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), number 191 (*), Moscow: Nauka, page 39
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “овощ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress