Animals & plants

egg

Source:*jajeProto-Slaviccertain

Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Czech use diminutives ('little egg'); BCS jaje is the plain old form. Czech vejce shows a turned to e after j.

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English

egg

Polish

jajko

ˈjajkɔ

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

In all five languages

BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
яйцо́jajco
jɪjˈtsoinherited
Ukrainian
яйце́jajce
jajˈtsɛinherited
Polish
jajko
ˈjajkɔinherited
Czech
vejce
ˈvɛjtsɛinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
jajeјаје
ˈjajeinherited
English
egg
Distant English relative — English egg, Latin ovum and *jaje go back to one Indo-European word.