оухо

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ȗxo, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *auṣ- or possibly *auṣ-i-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.

Noun

оухо • (uxo) n

Declension

The singular takes o-stem endings, the dual takes mostly i-stem endings, and the plural takes s-stem endings. Nonetheless оухо is conventionally considered an s-stem. Halla-aho considers the dual forms a remnant of an original i-stem which later became an s-stem, but Derksen reconstructs the Proto-Slavic form as an o-stem instead.

Reconstructed:

Declension of оухо (irregular s-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	оухо uxo	оуши uši	оушеса ušesa
genitive	оуха uxa	оушью, оушию ušĭju, ušiju	оушесъ ušesŭ
dative	оухоу uxu	оушима ušima	оушесьмъ ušesĭmŭ
accusative	оухо uxo	оуши uši	оушеса ušesa
instrumental	оухомь uxomĭ	оушима ušima	оушесꙑ ušesy
locative	оусѣ usě	оушью, оушию ušĭju, ušiju	оушесьхъ ušesĭxŭ
vocative	оухо uxo	оуши uši	оушеса ušesa

Attested:

Declension of оухо

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	оухо uxo	оуши uši	оушеса^† ušesa^†
genitive	оуха^† uxa^†	оушью, оушию ušĭju, ušiju	оушесъ^† ušesŭ^†
dative	оухоу uxu	оушима^† ušima^†	— —
accusative	оухо uxo	оуши, оуші uši, uši	— —
instrumental	— —	оушима^† ušima^†	оушесꙑ ušesy
locative	— —	оушью, оушию ušĭju, ušiju	— —
vocative	— —	— —	— —

†Only attested in later Church Slavonic.

References

Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “оухо”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk
Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “оухо”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
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