Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/či

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 Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₁, initially instrumental singular of pronoun *kʷo-/*kʷe-; compare Latin quī (“how? why?”), Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬱 (ciš), Old Saxon hwi.[1]

Conjunction

*či[1]

  1. if, whether
  2. or

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: чи (či)
      • Old Ruthenian: чи (či), чы (čy)
        • Belarusian: ці (ci)
        • Ukrainian: чи (čy)
      • Russian: чи (či) (dialectal)
    • Old Novgorodian: ци (ći)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Church Slavonic: чи (či)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: či, če
      Cyrillic script: чи, че
    • Slovene: če, čì
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*či”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*či”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 109
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