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.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative forms

*ovoťь m^[1]

Etymology

Generally thought to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow”),^[2] via an intermediate form *voksti-,^[3] though this is debated.

Early scholars (Miklošič, Uhlenbeck, Kiparsky, and still supported by Germanists) presumed borrowing^[4] 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).

Noun

*ovoťe n^[4]

flowering plant
(collective) fruitage, vegetables (yield of flowering plants)

Declension

Declension of *ovoťè (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ovoťè	*ovòťi	*ovòťa
genitive	*ovoťà	*ovoťu	*ovòťь
dative	*ovoťù	*ovoťema	*ovòťemъ
accusative	*ovoťè	*ovòťi	*ovòťa
instrumental	ovoťь̀mь, ovoťèmь^*	*ovoťema	*ovòťi
locative	*ovoťì	*ovoťu	*ovòťixъ
vocative	*ovoťè	*ovòťi	*ovòťa

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

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

References

^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “ovotjь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a frugt (PR 134)”
^ 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
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎^[2], Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 132: “PSl. *ovotjь, *ovotje ‘fruit’ (m. jo-stem; n. jo-stem)”