Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovьnъ

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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.

Proto-Slavic

*ovь̀nъ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas. By surface analysis, *ovь (sheep) +‎ *-ьnъ.

Noun

*ovь̀nъ m[1][2]

  1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ovьnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384
  2. ^ Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ovьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 222