Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jь že

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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

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Etymology

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From *jь + *že.

Conjunction

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*jь že[1]

  1. who (relative pronoun)

Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • >? Old East Slavic: иже (iže), иж ()
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jь (že), *ja (že), *je (že)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 204

References

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  1. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “jь že”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:jь-že c (PR 139).