вовкъ
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Old Ruthenian
вовкъ (sense 1)
Alternative forms
- волкъ (volk)
Etymology
From early волкъ (volk), inherited from Old East Slavic вълкъ (vŭlkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vь̑lkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wilkás, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Cognate with Russian волк (volk). Doublet of влъкъ (vlk).
Noun
вовкъ • (vovk) m anim (feminine вовчица, related adjective вовчїй)
Descendants
- Belarusian: воўк (voŭk)
- Carpathian Rusyn: вовк (vovk)
- → Pannonian Rusyn: вовк (vovk)
- Ukrainian: вовк (vovk); вівк (vivk) (dialectal)
Further reading
- Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “волкъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 295
- Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1984), “волкъ, вовкъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 4 (вкупитися – вспевати), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 135
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “вовкъ, вовъкъ, волкъ, волъкъ, влъкъ, вълкъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 137