divь

divъ II; divь Grammatical information: adj. o; adj. jo Proto-Slavic meaning: `wild'

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Old Church Slavic:

divii `wild' [adj jo]

Czech:

divý `wild, furious' [adj o];

diví (dial.) `wild, furious' [adj jo]

Old Polish:

dziwy `wild' [adj o]

Slovincian:

ʒäwḯ `wild' [adj o]

Upper Sorbian:

dźiwi `wild' [adj o]

Serbo-Croatian:

dìvljī `wild' [adj jo];

Čak. divl̨ī (Vrgada) `cruel, brutal' [adj jo]

Slovene:

dívji `wild' [adj jo]

Bulgarian:

div `wild, rough' [adj o]

Comments: See -> *dikъ. The Russian adjectives dívyj (dial.) `surprising' and dívoj (dial.) `miraculous, surprising', which the ESSJa mentions under this lemma, are obviously cognate with *divьnъ.