Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ešče

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-Balto-Slavic *eske, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éskʷe(h₁),^[1] probably a compound of *h₁es- (“to be”) +‎ *-kʷe (conjunctive enclitic; and).^[2]

Particle

*(j)ešče^[1]^[3]

yet
still

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Old Ruthenian: єще (ješče), єсче (jesče), єщо (ješčo), ище (išče)
    - Belarusian: яшчэ́ (jaščé), шчэ (šče)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: ще (šče), щи (ščy), ищи (yščy), іщи (iščy)
    - Ukrainian: ще (šče), іще́ (iščé)
  - Russian: ещё (ješčó), ещежды (ješčeždy), ощо (oščo) (dialectal), ешто (ješto) (dialectal)
- Old Novgorodian: ѥще (jeśće)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: еще (ešte)
- Bulgarian: о́ще (óšte), еще (ešte) (obsolete), ешче (ešče) (dialectal), йошкье (joškje) (Torlakian dialect)
- Macedonian: уште (ušte)
- Serbo-Croatian
  Cyrillic: јо̏ш, јо̏шт, јо̏ште
  
  Latin: jȍš, jȍšt, jȍšte
- Slovene: šȅ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: jesz
- Old Czech: ješče
  - Czech: ještě
- Old Polish: jeszcze
  - Polish: jeszcze, eszcze (Malbork)
  - Silesian: jeszcze
- Polabian: jist, hist
- Old Slovak: ešče, eščik, ešte, išče, ješče, ješte
  - Pannonian Rusyn: ище (išče), ещи (ešči), ещик (eščik) — Kucura, ищек (išček) — obsolete
  - Slovak: ešte
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: hišće
  - Lower Sorbian: hyšći

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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’”
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ešče”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 32
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “ješče”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a endnu (PR 133)”

[EDSIL-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ešče”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 32

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001) “ješče”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a endnu (PR 133)”

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