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

Most likely derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow”).

Early scholars (Miklošič, Uhlenbeck, Kyparsky, and still supported by Germanists) presumed borrowing[2] from Old High German оbеʒ (“fruit”), which has been dismissed since then (by most Slavists) for phonetic and chronological reasons.

Noun

*ovoťe n[2]

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
Accusative	*ovoťè	*ovòťi	*ovòťa
Genitive	*ovoťà	*ovoťu	*ovòťь
Locative	*ovoťì	*ovoťu	*ovòťixъ
Dative	*ovoťù	*ovoťema	*ovòťemъ
Instrumental	ovoťь̀mь, ovoťèmь^*	*ovoťema	*ovòťi
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: овоще (ovošte)
- Bulgarian: ово́ще (ovóšte) (dialectal or obsolete)
  - ⇒ Bulgarian: ово́шка (ovóška)
- Macedonian: овоште (ovošte) (dialectal)
  - ⇒ Macedonian: овошка (ovoška)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: во̏ће
  
  Latin: vȍće
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: ovoce
  - Czech: ovoce
    - Moravian (Mistřice): ovoce

From masculine *ovoťь:

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: овочь (ovočĭ)
  - Ukrainian: о́воч m (óvoč, “vegetable”)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: овощь (ovoštĭ)
  - → Russian: о́вощ m (óvošč, “vegetable”)
- Old Polish: owoc
  - Polish: owoc
- Silesian: ôwoc
- Slovak: ovoc
- Slovincian: u̯ovωc

From extended *ovoťьje:

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: овощьѥ (ovoštĭje), овоштѥ (ovoštje)
- 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, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a frugt (PR 134)”
Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 132: “PSl. *ovotjь, *ovotje ‘fruit’ (m. jo-stem; n. jo-stem)”

Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*ovoktь/*ovokt(j)e”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 191
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “овощ”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “овощие, овоще”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 769

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[1] Olander, Thomas (2001), “ovotjь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a frugt (PR 134)”

[Pronk-Tiethoff-2] Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 132: “PSl. *ovotjь, *ovotje ‘fruit’ (m. jo-stem; n. jo-stem)”