Animals & plants

sheep

Source:*ovьcaProto-Slaviccertain

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English

sheep

Polish

owca

ˈɔftsa

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

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
овца́ovca
ɐfˈtsainherited
Ukrainian
вівця́vivcja
ʋʲiwˈtsʲainherited
Polish
owca
ˈɔftsainherited
Czech
ovce
ˈoftsɛinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
ovcaовца
ˈovtsainherited
English
sheep
Distant English relative: ewe — English ewe and Latin ovis share the Indo-European root of *ovьca.