Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gavědь

Etymology
Per Brückner, Mladenov, Trubačev: originally a collective noun from (doubted by Vasmer). Apparently, cognate with 🇨🇬, which is akin to, and likely. Further origin uncertain. Proposals have been made for descent from or from the onomatopoeia 🇨🇬.

Comparison has also been drawn to, and furthermore 🇨🇬. Per Lubotsky, perhaps all of them ultimately from. If right, then possibly also related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) disordered state
 * → filth, dirt
 * → low behaviour, disgrace
 * 1) disorganized group of people/animals (crowd, mob)
 * → wild stock
 * → wild creature, beast
 * → wild creature, beast

Declension
Some descendants have readjusted (probably diachronically) the gender of meaning “wild creature, beast” to masculine:

Descendants

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