Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ovoťe

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.

• *ovoťь m^[1]

Possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow”).

Early scholars (Miklošič, Uhlenbeck, Kiparsky, and still supported by Germanists) presumed borrowing^[2] from Old High German obaz, obez or Proto-West Germanic *obaet (“fruit”), which has been dismissed since then (by most Slavists) for phonetic and chronological reasons (though these reasons would not necessarily hold for a pre-OHG borrowing).

*ovoťe n^[2]

1. flowering plant
2. (collective) fruitage, vegetables (yield of flowering plants)

• *ovoťьje
• *ovoťьka
• *ovoťьnikъ, *ovoťařь (“fruit grower”)

From neuter *ovoťe:

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: овоще (ovošte)

    Glagolitic script: ⱁⰲⱁⱋⰵ (ovošte)

    • Bulgarian: ово́ще (ovóšte) (dialectal or obsolete)
      • ⇒ Bulgarian: ово́шка (ovóška)
    • Macedonian: овоште (ovošte) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Macedonian: овошка (ovoška)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: во̏ће

    Latin script: vȍće

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ovoce
    • Czech: ovoce

From masculine *ovoťь:

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: овочь (ovočĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: о́вочъ (óvoč)
      • Ukrainian: о́воч m (óvoč, “vegetable”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: овощь (ovoštĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱁⰲⱁⱋⱐ (ovoštĭ)

    • → Old East Slavic: овощь (ovoščĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: о́вощъ (óvošč)
        • Ukrainian: о́вощ (óvošč)
      • Russian: о́вощ m (óvošč, “vegetable”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: owoc
    • Polish: owoc
    • Silesian: ôwoc
  • Old Slovak: ovoc
    • Pannonian Rusyn: овоц f (ovoc)
    • Slovak: ovoc

From extended *ovoťьje:

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: овощьѥ (ovoštĭje)

    Glagolitic script: ⱁⰲⱁⱋⱐⰵ (ovoštĭe)

  • Bulgarian: ово́щия pl (ovóštija)
  • Macedonian: овошје (ovošje) (dialectal)
  • Slovene: ovóčje
• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: ovocie

• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ovoktь/*ovokt(j)e”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 191
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “овощ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “овощие, овоще”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 769