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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/divьjь

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 *divъ (intact, wild; feral, wild) + *-ьjь.

Adjective

*divьjь[1][2]

  1. Alternative form of *divъ (intact, wild; feral, wild; unpopulated, uncultivated; savage, fierce)

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: дивии (divii)
      • Ukrainian: дівіи (diviy) (dated)
      • Russian: ди́вий (dívij) (obsolete)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: дивии (divii)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: дѝваљ
      Latin script: dìvalj, dìvijī
    • Slovene: dívji (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “divji”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *dívьjь
  2. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1979), “divъ 4, divьjь (div'ь)”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 3 (davьnъ – dobirati sę), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 228
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