Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/uxo

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *auś- (or possibly *auśi-, if reconstructed as an i-stem), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Lithuanian ausis, Latvian auss, Old Prussian ausins (accusative plural).

*ȗxo n

1. ear

Traditionally reconstructed as an s-stem. Derksen reconstructs an o-stem instead, while Halla-aho reconstructs an i-stem (*ušь) on the basis of the Baltic evidence and the OCS dual forms, albeit at an earlier stage of Proto-Slavic than that represented here.

• *uxačь (“hare”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ухо (uxo)
    • Old Ruthenian: у́хо (úxo), ву́хо (vúxo)
      • Belarusian: ву́ха (vúxa)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: у́хо (úxo), ву́хо (vúxo)
      • Ukrainian: ву́хо (vúxo)
    • Russian: у́хо (úxo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оухо (uxo)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: ухо́ (uhó)
  • Macedonian: уво (uvo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̏хо, у̏во

    Latin script: ȕho, ȕvo

  • Slovene: uhọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Old Czech: ucho
    • Czech: ucho
  • Old Polish: ucho
    • Polish: ucho
    • Silesian: ucho
  • Old Slovak: ucho
    • Slovak: ucho
  • Polabian: vaux’ü
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: ùchò
    • Slovincian: wùchô
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wucho
    • Lower Sorbian: wucho

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki