Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oxъ

Onomatopoeic. From Proto-Balto-Slavic, from Proto-Indo-European *ō. Compare Latin ō, ōh, Ancient Greek ὦ (ô).

*oxъ

1. oh

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: охъ (oxŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: охъ (ox)
      • Belarusian: ох (ox), вох (vox)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ох (ox)
      • Ukrainian: ох (ox)
    • Russian: ох (ox)
  • Old Novgorodian: охъ / ⱁⱈⱏ (oxŭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: охъ (oxŭ)
    • Bulgarian: ох (oh)
    • Macedonian: ох (oh)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏х

    Latin script: ȍh

  • Slovene: ȍh (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: oh, och
    • Czech: och
  • Old Polish:
    • Polish: och
    • Silesian:
  • Old Slovak: oh, och
    • Pannonian Rusyn: ох (ox)
    • Slovak: och
  • Polabian:
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: och
    • Slovincian:
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: och
    • Upper Sorbian: och

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• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ох”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “вох”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Vasmer, Max (1972) “ох”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 174
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “ох”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 982
• Preobrazhensky, A. G. (1910–1914) “охъ!”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – О), numbers 1–9, Moscow: G. Lissner & D. Sobko Publishing House, page 672