волъ

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See also: воль

Old Church Slavonic

волъ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vòlъ.

Noun

волъ (volŭm

  1. ox
    • from the Physiologus:
      Волъ ес‘ть на слꙋжбꙋ ч͝лвкомъ. во срⷣцӥ своемъ беꙁꙁлобна вещь.
      Volŭ es‘tĭ na službu č͝lvkomŭ. vo srⷣci svoemŭ bezzlobna veštĭ.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Old Ruthenian

волы

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic волъ (volŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vòlъ. Cognate with Russian вол (vol), Old Czech vól.

Noun

волъ (volm animal

  1. ox, bullock

Descendants

  • Belarusian: вол (vol); вюл (vjul) (dialectal)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: вул (vul)
  • Ukrainian: віл (vil)

Further reading

  • Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “волъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 303
  • Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “вулъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 355
  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*волъ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 194
  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “волъ, воль, вълъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 217
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    Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1984), “волъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 4 (вкупитися – вспевати), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 156

Russian

Noun

волъ (volm anim (genitive вола́, nominative plural волы́, genitive plural воло́въ, relational adjective воло́вій)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of вол (vol).

Declension