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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/my

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

Cognate with Lithuanian mes and Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ).

Pronoun

*my [1][2][3]

  1. we (plural)

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: мꙑ (my)
      Glagolitic:
    • Bulgarian: ние (nie) (re-formed by analogy)
    • Macedonian: ние (nie) (re-formed by analogy)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ми̑
      Latin:
    • Slovene: (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: my
    • Kashubian:
    • Polish: my
    • Slovak: my
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: my
      • Upper Sorbian: my

References

  1. 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’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), my”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “we: cf. table X (SA 34ff., 244)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), ”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*mŷ”
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