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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/němьčьskъ

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 *němьcь (foreigner, non-Slav; German) + *-ьskъ.

Adjective

*němьčьskъ[1]

  1. German

Declension

Descendants

Only the definite form of the adjective survives in most languages. However, the indefinite form was still present in Old Church Slavonic.

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*němьčьskъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 104
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