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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tvojь

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 *twajas, from pre-Balto-Slavic *twoyos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate with Old Prussian twais and Latin tuus. Possessive pronoun for the second-person has been modeled after the possessive pronoun for the first-person *mojь (from Proto-Indo-European *moyos), and were all inflected like demonstratives.

Determiner

*tvojь

  1. thy, your

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: твои (tvoi)
      • Old Ruthenian: твой (tvoj)
        • Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: твуй (tvuj)
        • Ukrainian: твій (tvij)
      • Russian: твой (tvoj)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: твои (tvoi)
      Glagolitic script: ⱅⰲⱁⰹ (tvoi)
    • Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
    • Macedonian: твој (tvoj)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: тво̑ј
      Latin script: tvȏj
    • Slovene: tvọ́j (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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