Inherited from Old East Slavic оу́тꙑ (úty), from Proto-Slavic *ǫ̀ty from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ánˀtō from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts. Cognate with Russian утва́ (utvá).
утва • (utva) f animal
url=utvaPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Bulyka, A. M., editor (2015), “утва”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 35 (уморати – фолдровый), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 233