Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovamo

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.

From *ovъ +‎ *-mo.

*ovamo

1. hither; there (?)

• Church Slavonic: овамо (ovamo, “thereto (?)”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: овамо (ovamo, “hither; there”)
    • Middle Russian: овамо (ovamo, “hither”)
      • Russian: овамо (ovamo, “there; hither”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: овамо (ovamo, “hither (?)”)
  • Bulgarian: ова́мо (ovámo, “hereto”), Bulgarian: ова́м (ovám), Bulgarian: ва́мр (vámr)
  • Macedonian: ваму (vamu, “hereto; here”)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ovamo (“hereto; here”)
  • Slovene: ovam (“hither”)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: owam (“in another place”), usually in the phrase "tam i owam", meaning "here and there". Additionally, this phrase can also contain the word 'siam' to give a rather exaggerated meaning of 'in every place'.

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “овамо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ovamo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 190
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “овамо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ ‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 591