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: уи (ui), вуи (vui)
  - Old Ruthenian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj)
    - Belarusian: вуй (vuj) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: вуй (vuj), уй (uj) (dialectal)
  - Russian: уй (uj) (obsolete)
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, →ISSN, 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

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