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

maternal uncle

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: оуи (ui), вуи (vui)
  - Old Ruthenian: вꙋй (vuj), оуй (uj)
    - Belarusian: вуй (vuj) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj) (dialectal)
  - Russian: уй (uj) (obsolete)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: вуйчо (vujčo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: у̏ја̄к
  Latin: ȕjāk
- Slovene: ujec
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: ujec
  - Czech: ujec
- Kashubian: wùja, ùja
- Polabian: vaujă
- Old Polish: uj
  - Polish: wuj
- Slovak: ujo
- 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 Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress