ovьcà

ovьcà Grammatical information: f. jā Accent paradigm: b/c Proto-Slavic meaning: `sheep'

Old Church Slavic:

ovьca `sheep' [f jā]

Russian:

ovcá `sheep' [f jā], ovcú [Accs] \{1\}

Czech:

ovce `sheep' [f jā]

Slovak:

ovca `sheep' [f jā]

Polish:

owca `sheep' [f jā]

Serbo-Croatian:

óvca `sheep' [f jā], óvcu [Accs], ȏvce [Nom p];

Čak. ȏvca (Vrgada) `sheep' [f jā], ȏvcu [Accs];

Čak. ofcȁ (Novi) `sheep' [f jā], ȍfcu [Accs]

Slovene:

óvca `sheep' [f jā]

Bulgarian:

ovcá `sheep' [f jā]

Lithuanian:

avìs `sheep' [f i] 4

Latvian:

avs `sheep' [f i]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₃eu-i-keh₂

Page in Pokorny: 784

Comments: Derivative in *-keh₂ of PIE *h₃eu-i-.

Other cognates:

Skt. ávi- `sheep, ram' [m/f];

Gk. ὄϊς `sheep' [m/f] [1;

Lat. ovis `sheep' [f];

Toch. B. awi [Nompf] `female sheep'

Notes:

\{1\} In Old Russian we find indications for AP's (b) en (c) (Zaliznjak 1985: 135). According to Illič-Svityč (1963:    85), ovcá has mobile accentuation in 18th and 19th poetry as well as in dialects.