Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/okovъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/okovъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *okovati (“to shackle, chain”).

Noun

*okòvъ m

1. (plural only) shackles, chains

Inflection

Declension of *okòvъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*okòvъ	*okovà	*okovì
Accusative	*okòvъ	*okovà	*okovỳ
Genitive	*okovà	*okovù	*okòvъ
Locative	*okově̀	*okovù	*okòvěxъ
Dative	*okovù	*okovòma	*okovòmъ
Instrumental	*okovъ̀mь, *okovòmь*	*okovòma	*okòvy
Vocative	*okove	*okovà	*okovì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: оков (okov), оковы (okovy)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: (plural only) окови (okovi)

  • Bulgarian: (plural only) окови (okovi)
  • Macedonian: (plural only) окови (okovi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: оков

    Latin: okov

• West Slavic:

References

• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “оковы”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa