Where does “-о́в” come from?

-о́в (Russian) comes from Old East Slavic -овъ, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.

-о́в (Russian): Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns

Definitions

  1. Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns

Ancestry of “-о́в”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old East Slavic-овъ—
2Proto-Slavic-ovъof, belonging to

Words derived from “-о́в”

Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovъ →Every word from Old East Slavic -овъ →