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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bělověža

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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

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Etymology

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From *bělъ +‎ *-o- +‎ *věža.

Noun

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*bělověža f

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Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: Беловежа (Beloveža, name of a village on the Narevka river)
    • Ukrainian: Білові́ж (Bilovíž, name of a village)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bělověža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 75