# вой
## Bulgarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vɔj]
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vъjь, *vyjь.

#### Noun

вой • (voj) m
* howl, yowl (prolonged low-pitch cry of canines)
* howl, tootle (low-pitch noise of siren, wind, or another inanimate source)
* (figurative) cry, wail, whine, clamour (of person)

##### Related terms

* ви́я (víja, “to howl, to wail”)
* вик (vik, “scream”)
* въй (vǎj, “ah, wow”)

#### References

* “вой¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
* “вой”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

### Etymology 2

Expressive.

#### Interjection

вой • (voj)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of въй (vǎj, “wow, hey”)
    вой та тебеvoj ta tebehey you

#### References

* “вой²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *vojь (“turn, curving”).

#### Noun

вой • (voj) m
* (obsolete) turn, curving, volution

##### Declension

$^1$Archaic.

##### Derived terms

* заво́й (zavój, “curve, turn”)
* наво́й (navój, “wrapping band, rope”) (dialectal)
* пово́й (povój, “coverlet, wrap, coil”)
* приво́й (privój, “tie, lace”) (dialectal)
* разво́й (razvój, “development”)

## Komi-Zyrian

Times of day :
| Previous: | рыт (ryt) |
| Next: | асыв (asyv) |

### Etymology

From Proto-Permic *öj, from Proto-Uralic *üje. Cognates include Finnish yö and Hungarian éj. The sense for the compass point emerged from the position of the Sun on the given time of day.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋoj/, [ˈʋo̞j]
* Rhymes: -oj
* Hyphenation: вой

### Noun

вой • (voj)
* night
* north

#### Declension

Possessive declension of вой :

#### Derived terms

* войвыв (vojvyv)

#### See also

compass points:
| | вой (voj) войвыв (vojvyv) | |
| рыт (ryt) рытыввыв (rytyvvyv) | | асыв (asyv) асыввыв (asyvvyv) |
| | лун (lun) лунвыв (lunvyv) | |

### References

* Bubrikh, Dmitry V. (1949) Грамматика литературного коми языка [Grammar of the literary Komi language] (in Russian), Leningrad: Zhdanov Leningrad State University, page 25
* L. M. Beznosikova, E. A. Ajbabina, R. I. Kosnyreva (2000) Коми-русский словарь [Komi-Russian dictionary], →ISBN, page 106

## Northern Khanty
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

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### Noun

вой (woj) (Kazym)
* animal, beast

### References

* Solovar, V. N. (2014) “вой”, in Хантыйско-русский Словарь (казымский диалект) [Khanty-Russian Dictionary (Kazym Dialect)]‎, Khanty-Mansiysk: ООО «ФОРМАТ», →ISBN, page 39

## Russian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [voj]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vojь. Compare выть (vytʹ). See Proto-Slavic *vyti for more information.

#### Noun

вой • (voj) m inan (genitive во́я, nominative plural во́и, genitive plural во́ев)
* howl, wail
** 1875, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава десятая”, in На краю света; English translation from Alfred Edward Chamot, transl., On the Edge of the World, 1923:Пред мои́ми глаза́ми, вдали́, в полутьме́, что́-то мелькну́ло, как тёмная стрела́, пото́м друга́я, тре́тья, и вслед за тем в во́здухе разда́лся протя́жный жа́лобный вой.Pred moími glazámi, vdalí, v polutʹmé, štó-to melʹknúlo, kak tjómnaja strelá, potóm drugája, trétʹja, i vsled za tem v vózduxe razdálsja protjážnyj žálobnyj voj.I saw, in the twilight, something flitting in the distance, like a dark arrow, then another, and a third, and immediately after the air was filled with a long doleful howl.

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

вой • (voj)
* second-person singular imperative imperfective of выть (vytʹ)