Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/byvolъ

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.

• *bujьvolъ

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *būvalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos). Many of the descendants influenced by a reanalysis as *bujь (“wild”) +‎ *volъ (“ox”).

*byvolъ m

1. buffalo

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бꙑволъ (byvolŭ)
    • Belarusian: бу́йвал (bújval), ба́вал (bával), бу́йла (bújla)
    • Russian: бу́йвол (bújvol), (dialectal) бу́йла (bújla), бу́йло (bújlo)
    • Ukrainian: бу́йвіл (bújvil), бу́йвов (bújvov)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic (Russian recension): бꙑволъ (byvolŭ)
  • Bulgarian: би́вол (bívol)
  • Macedonian: бивол (bivol)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: би́вол, би́во̄ (gen: би́вола)

    Latin script: bívol, bívō (gen: bívola)

  • Slovene: bȋvol
  • → Hungarian: bivaly
  • → Romanian: bivol
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: byvol
    • Czech: buvol
  • Old Polish: bawół
    • Polish: bawół, bajwół (Middle Polish)
      • → Lower Sorbian: bawoł
    • Silesian: bawōł
  • Slovak: byvol
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: buwoł
      • → Lower Sorbian: buwoł

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*byvolъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 158
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бу́йвол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress