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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/živъ

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 *gīˀwás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (alive).

Adjective

*žȋvъ[1]

  1. alive, live, living
    Antonym: *mьrtvъ

Inflection

Accent paradigm c.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: живъ (živŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: живъ (živŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰶⰻⰲⱏ (živŭ)
    • Bulgarian: жив (živ)
    • Macedonian: жив (živ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: жи̑в
      Latin script: žȋv
    • Slovene: žȋv (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “живо́й”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žȋvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 564
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