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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ešče

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *eske, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésk(ʷ)e(h₁), probably a compound of *h₁es- (“to be”) +‎ *-kʷe (“conjunctive enclitic”).

Particle

*(j)ešče [1][2]

  1. yet
  2. still

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: ещё (ješčó)
    • Ukrainian: іще (išče), ще (šče)
    • Belarusian: яшчэ́ (jaščé)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ešče”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 146: “adv. ‘still, yet’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “ješče”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a endnu (PR 133)”
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