Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ače

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

    Univerbation of *a +‎ *če.

    Particle

    *ače[1][2]

    1. there it is, there it is

    Conjunction

    *ače[1][2]

    1. if, although

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: аче (ače)
        • Ruthenian:
          • Belarusian: ач () (dialectal)
          • Ukrainian: ач́ (ač́)
        • Russian: а́че (áče), ач ()
      • Old Novgorodian: аче (acʹje)
    • South Slavic:
      • Bulgarian: обаче (obače)
      • Serbo-Croatian: (Old Serbian)
        Latin script: ače
        Cyrillic script: аче
      • Slovene: àče (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:
      • Old Czech:
      • Old Polish: acz
      • Pomeranian:
      • Slovak:
      • Sorbian:
        • Lower Sorbian: ac (obsolete)
        • Upper Sorbian: hač, (dated)

    Further reading

    1. 1.0 1.1 Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “ače”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 148
    2. 2.0 2.1 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*a če/*a či”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 35