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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vy

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wāns, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *jūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronoun

*vy

  1. you, ye (plural, nominative)
  2. you (plural, accusative)

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вꙑ (vy)
      • Old Ruthenian: вы (vy)
        • Belarusian: вы (vy)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: вы ()
        • Ukrainian: ви (vy)
      • Russian: вы (vy)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: вꙑ (vy)
    • Bulgarian: вие (vie) (re-formed by analogy)
    • Macedonian: вие (vie) (re-formed by analogy)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ви̑
      Latin script:
    • Slovene: (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: vy
    • Old Polish: wy
      • Masurian: wi
      • Polish: wy
      • Silesian: wy
    • Slovak: vy
    • Pomeranian:
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: wy
      • Upper Sorbian: wy

Further reading

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