Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/uxo

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *auṣ- (or possibly *auṣ-i-, if reconstructed as an i-stem), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun

*ȗxo n

ear

Declension

Declension of *ȗxo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ȗxo	*ȗšesi	*ušesà
Accusative	*ȗxo	*ȗšesi	*ušesà
Genitive	*ȗšese	*ušesù	*ušèsъ
Locative	*ȗšese	*ušesù	*ušèsьxъ
Dative	*ȗšesi	*ušesьmà	*ušèsьmъ
Instrumental	*ȗšesьmь	*ušesьmà	*ušesý
Vocative	*ȗxo	*ȗšesi	*ušesà

Declension of *ȗxo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ȗxo	*ȗśě	*uxà
Accusative	*ȗxo	*ȗśě	*uxà
Genitive	*ȗxa	*uxù	*ũxъ
Locative	*ȗśě	*uxù	*uśě̃xъ
Dative	*ȗxu	*uxomà	*uxòmъ
Instrumental	ȗxъmь, ȗxomь^*	*uxomà	*uxý
Vocative	*ȗxo	*ȗśě	*uxà

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

Traditionally reconstructed as an s-stem. Derksen reconstructs an o-stem instead, while Halla-aho reconstructs an i-stem (*ušь) on the basis of the Baltic evidence and the OCS dual forms, albeit at an earlier stage of Proto-Slavic than that represented here.

Derived terms

*uxačь (“hare”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ухо (uxo)
  - Belarusian: ву́ха (vúxa)
  - Russian: у́хо (úxo)
  - Ukrainian: ву́хо (vúxo)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: оухо (uxo)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ухо́ (uhó)
- Macedonian: уво (uvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: у̏хо, у̏во
  
  Latin: ȕho, ȕvo
- Slovene: uhọ̑ (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:
- Czech: ucho
- Kashubian: ùchò
- Polish: ucho
- Slovak: ucho
- Slovincian: vʉ̃χɵ
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wucho
  - Upper Sorbian: wucho

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26)‎, Helsinki: University of Helsinki

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