Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/esmъ

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

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Verb

*esmъ

  1. first-person plural present of *byti

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: есмъ (jesmŭ)
    • Old Novgorodian: есме (jesme), есмꙑ (jesmy)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: ѥсмъ (jesmŭ)
    • Bulgarian: сме (sme)
    • Macedonian: сме (sme), смо (smo) (dialectal), сне (sne) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Old Slovene: gezm
  • West Slavic:

References


Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “есмы”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “є”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 175
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