Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/(j)uže

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/(j)uže

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 *ju +‎ *že.

Particle

*(j)uže

1. already
2. anymore

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ужо́ (užó)
    • Russian: уже́ (užé), ужо́ (užó)
    • Old Ukrainian: оуже (uže), оужь (užʹ), вже (vže), вжо (vžo)
      • Ukrainian: вже (vže), уже (uže)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: юже (juže)

    Glagolitic: ⱓⰶⰵ (juže)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ју̏р, ју̏ре, ју̑р, ју̃р (dialectal, dated)

    Latin: jȕr, jȕre, jȗr, jũr (dialectal, dated)

  • Slovene: jur
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: juže, juž
    • Czech: již
  • Polabian: jauz
  • Polish: już; juże, uż (dialectal, dated)
  • Slovak: už
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: juž, južo
    • Upper Sorbian: juž, južo, hižo, huž

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*ju že”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 191
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “уже́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress