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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/my
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wéy, with an irregular change from *w- to *m-. The same irregular change happened in middle Indo-Iranian languages and German dialects. Cognate with Lithuanian mẽs and Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ).
Pronoun
*my[1][2][3]
- we (plural)
Declension
Declension of the personal pronouns
| Singular | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *jãzъ, *jà | *ty̑ | — |
| Accusative | *mę̑ | *tę̑ | *sę̑ |
| Genitive | *mȅne | *tȅbe | *sȅbe |
| Locative | *mьně̀ | *tebě̀ | *sebě̀ |
| Dative | *mьně̀, *mi | *tebě̀, *ti | *sebě̀, *si |
| Instrumental | *mъnòjǫ, *mъnojǫ̀ | *tobòjǫ, *tobojǫ̀ | *sobòjǫ, *sobojǫ̀ |
| Possessive | *mojь | *tvojь | *svojь |
| Dual | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
| Nominative | *vě̑ | *vy̑ | — |
| Accusative | *nȃ | *vȃ | *sę̑ |
| Genitive | *nàju | *vàju | *sȅbe |
| Locative | *nàju | *vàju | *sebě̀ |
| Dative | *nàma, *na | *vàma, *va | *sebě̀, *si |
| Instrumental | *nàma | *vàma | *sobòjǫ, *sobojǫ̀ |
| Possessive | *našь | *vašь | *svojь |
| Plural | 1st person | 2nd person | Reflexive |
| Nominative | *my̑ | *vy̑ | — |
| Accusative | *ny̑ | *vy̑ | *sę̑ |
| Genitive | *nàsъ | *vàsъ | *sȅbe |
| Locative | *nàsъ | *vàsъ | *sebě̀ |
| Dative | *nàmъ, *ny | *vàmъ, *vy | *sebě̀, *si |
| Instrumental | *nàmi | *vàmi | *sobòjǫ, *sobojǫ̀ |
| Possessive | *našь | *vašь | *svojь |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мꙑ (my)
- Old Ruthenian: мы (my)
- Belarusian: мы (my)
- Rusyn: мы (mŷ)
- Ukrainian: ми (my)
- Russian: мы (my)
- Old Ruthenian: мы (my)
- Old East Slavic: мꙑ (my)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: мꙑ (my)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ние (nie) (re-formed by analogy)
- Macedonian: ние (nie) (re-formed by analogy), ми (mi) (dialectal), мие (mie) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми̑
- Latin: mȋ
- Slovene: mȋ (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: my
- Kashubian: më
- Polish: my
- Slovak: my
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: my
- Upper Sorbian: my
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*my”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 336: “prn. ‘we’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “my”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “we: cf. table X (SA 34ff., 244)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “mȋ”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*mŷ”
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мы”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress