вуй

Inherited from Proto-Mari *wuj, from Proto-Uralic *ojwa.

вуй • (vuj)

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• вꙋй, воуй, оуй

Inherited from Old East Slavic вуи (vui), оуи (ui), from Proto-Slavic *ujь.

вуй • (transliteration needed) m pers

1. maternal uncle

• Belarusian: вуй (vuj) (dialectal)
• Ukrainian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj) (dialectal)

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “вуй”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, issue 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: St. Publ. House of Ukraine, page 354
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1986), “вуй”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 5 (всперати – выорати), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 54
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2017), “уй”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 37 (чорное – ящыкъ), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 325
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1998), “вуй”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), issue 5 (впрашати – выпродати), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 71
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002), “вуй”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of the 15ᵗʰ – 18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 125

• IPA^(key): [vuj]

вуй • (vuj) m anim (genitive ву́я, nominative plural ву́и, genitive plural ву́ев)

1. Alternative form of уй (uj)

From Old Ukrainian уй, from Proto-Slavic *ujь.

• IPA^(key): [wui̯]

вуй • (vuj) m pers (genitive ву́я, nominative plural ву́ї, genitive plural ву́їв) (dialectal)

1. maternal uncle

   Coordinate term: стрий (stryj)

2. gaffer (an older man)

• ву́йко (vújko)
• ву́йна (vújna)

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “вуй”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “вуй”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “вуй”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Mari *wuj, from Proto-Uralic *ojwa.

вуй • (vuj)

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