Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/či

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-Indo-European *kʷíh₁, initially instrumental singular of pronoun *kʷo-/*kʷe-; compare Latin quī (“how? why?”), Avestan 𐬗𐬌𐬱 (ciš), Old Saxon hwi.[1]

    Conjunction

    *či[1]

    1. if, whether
    2. or

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: чи (či)
        • Old Ruthenian: чи (či), чы (čy)
          • Belarusian: ці (ci)
          • Ukrainian: чи (čy)
        • Russian: чи (či) (dialectal)
      • Old Novgorodian: ци (cʹi)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        • Church Slavonic: чи (či)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Latin script: či, če
        Cyrillic script: чи, че
      • Slovene: če, čì
    • West Slavic:

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*či”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

    Further reading

    • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*či”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 109
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