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zъly Grammatical information: f. ū Proto-Slavic meaning: `sister-in-law (husband's sister)'

Church Slavic:

zlъva (Mikl.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā]

Russian:

zolóvka `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā];

zólva (dial.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister), daughter-in-law' [f ā];

zolóva (dial.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā];

zolóv' (dial.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f i];

zólovica (dial.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f jā];

zolóvica (dial.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f jā]

Old Czech:

zelva `sister-in-law (husband's sister), daughter-in-law' [f ā]

Slovak:

zolvica `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f jā]

Old Polish:

zɫew `sister-in-law (husband's sister), daughter-in-law' [f i];

zeɫw `sister-in-law (husband's sister), daughter-in-law' [f i] \{1\}

Serbo-Croatian:

zȁova `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā];

zȃva (Vojv.) `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā]

Slovene:

zȃɫva `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā];

zȃva `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā];

zȏɫva `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

zắlva `sister-in-law (husband's sister)' [f ā]

Indo-European reconstruction: ǵlh₂-u-

Other cognates:

Skt. giri- (Gr̥Sū) `sister-in-law(?)' [f];

Gk. γάλως `husband's sister [f];

Lat. glōs `sister-in-law' [f]

Notes:

\{1\} The material presented in the Sɫownik staropolski seems to point to a paradigm zɫew, Gsg. zeɫwi < *zъlъvь, Gsg. zъlъvi. In that case the vocalism of zeɫw must be analogical.