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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/že

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰe (emphatic particle), cognate with Sanskrit (gha, at least, at any rate) and akin to Sanskrit हि (hi, for, on account of, indeed).

Conjunction

*že

  1. so that, since

Derived terms

  • *jь že (who/which)
  • *ju že (already, no longer)
  • *to že (so that)
  • *čьto že (what then, well then)
  • *tъjьžedьnь/*tъjьžьdьnь (week)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: же (že)
      • Russian: же (že)
      • Old Belarusian: же (že)
        • Belarusian: жа (ža)
      • Old Ukrainian: же (že)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: же (že)
      Glagolitic: ⰶⰵ (že)
    • Bulgarian: че (če)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (archaic, only survives as non-productive suffix)
      Cyrillic: ре
      Latin: re
    • Slovene: re (archaic, only survives as non-productive suffix)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: že
      • Czech: že
        • Bohemian (Chod dialect): že
    • Old Polish: że
      • Polish: że
        • Lesser Polish (Więciórka): ze
    • Slovak: že
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: že (archaic)

Further reading

Particle

*že[1][2]

  1. emphatic enclitic

Derived terms

  • *da že (even so)
  • *poňe že (since, because)

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*že”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554: “ptcl.”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), -že”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “(encl.; cf. jь-že) (rel. marker) (PR 139, 145)”
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