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. 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)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јер

    Latin script: jer

  • Slovene: ker
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jenž
  • Kashubian: że
  • Old Polish: iże, że, iż
    • Polish: że, iż
    • Silesian: że, iż

Further reading

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