Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jь že

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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 (iž)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: иже (iže)

    Glagolitic: ⰹⰶⰵ (iže)

    • → Russian: и́же (íže)

Further reading

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

References

1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “jь že”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “jь-že c (PR 139)”.