Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ujь

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *auˀis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian avýnas, Old Prussian awis (“uncle”).

Noun

*ujь m

1. maternal uncle

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: уи (ui), вуи (vui)
    • Old Ruthenian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj)
      • Belarusian: вуй (vuj) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj) (dialectal)
    • Russian: уй (uj) (obsolete)
  • Old Novgorodian: *оуи (*ui)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: вуйчо (vujčo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    ⇒ Cyrillic script: у̏ја̄к

    ⇒ Latin script: ȕjāk

  • ⇒ Slovene: ujec
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Czech: ujec
    • Czech: ujec
  • Old Polish: uj
    • Polish: wuj
  • Slovak: ujo
  • Polabian: vaujă
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: wùja, ùja
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wuj
    • Lower Sorbian: wuj

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 507
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “уй”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress