Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jь 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 *jь + *že.

    Conjunction

    *jь že[1]

    1. who (relative pronoun)

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • >? Old East Slavic: иже (iže), иж ()
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Cyrillic: иже (iže)
        Glagolitic: ⰹⰶⰵ (iže)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: јер
        Latin script: jer
      • Slovene: ker
    • West Slavic:

    Further reading

    • 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

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