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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
From ужъ (už) + -овый (-ovyj). Cognate with Russian ужо́вый (užóvyj), Polish wężowy.
Adjective
ужовый • (užovyj)
- (relational) grass snake (Natrix natrix) or more rarely any snake
- (figuratively, relational) devil (in the form of the tempter serpent)
- Synonym: ужевый (uževyj)
Declension
Declension of ужовый (hard)
Descendants
Further reading
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2014), “ужовый, ужевый”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 34 (тресолнечный – умопомятенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 284
- Tymchenko, E. K. (2003) “ужовый”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (О – Я), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 420