Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьnъ

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

*ovь̀nъ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas. By surface analysis, *ovь (“sheep”) +‎ *-ьnъ.

Noun

*ovь̀nъ m

1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

Declension of *ovь̀nъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ovь̀nъ	*ovьnà	*ovьnì
genitive	*ovьnà	*ovьnù	*ovь̀nъ
dative	*ovьnù	*ovьnòma	*ovьnòmъ
accusative	*ovь̀nъ	*ovьnà	*ovьnỳ
instrumental	*ovьnъ̀mь, *ovьnòmь*	*ovьnòma	*ovь̀ny
locative	*ovьně̀	*ovьnù	*ovь̀něxъ
vocative	*ovьne	*ovьnà	*ovьnì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *ovьca (“sheep (female)”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: овьнъ (ovĭnŭ), овенъ (ovenŭ)
    • Russian: ове́н (ovén)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: овьнъ (ovĭnŭ)
  • Bulgarian: ове́н (ovén), ове́нъ (ovén); о́вен (óven), уве́н (uvén) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: овен (oven)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о́ван

    Latin script: óvan

  • Slovene: óvən (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oven (obsolete)
  • Old Polish: owien
  • Kashubian: òwien (archaic)