-ье
See also: -ъё
Mongolian edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ье • (-ʹje)
- front vowel harmonic form of -ъя (-ʺja)
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old East Slavic -ьѥ, -ье (-ĭje, -ĭe), from Proto-Slavic *-ьje. Doublet of -ие (-ije), a borrowing from Church Slavonic.
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ье • (-ʹje)
- Abstract noun suffix; forms part of larger suffixes such as -е́нье (-énʹje), -а́нье (-ánʹje), -тье (-tʹje), and exists on its own especially as a suffix added to compound words.
- по́лый (pólyj, “spilling over”) + -о- (-o-) + вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ье (-ʹje) → полово́дье (polovódʹje, “seasonal flooding”)
- рука́ (ruká, “hand”) + -о- (-o-) + бор(оться) (bor(otʹsja), “to fight, to wrestle”) + -ье (-ʹje) → рукобо́рье (rukobórʹje, “arm wrestling”)
- без- (bez-, “without”) + лю́ди (ljúdi, “people”) + -ье (-ʹje) → безлю́дье (bezljúdʹje, “absence of people”)
- меж- (mež-, “between”) + сезо́н (sezón, “season”) + -ье (-ʹje) → межсезо́нье (mežsezónʹje, “off-season”)
- под- (pod-, “under”) + нога́ (nogá, “leg”) + -ье (-ʹje) → подно́жье (podnóžʹje, “foot (of a mountain)”)
- Suffix used to create names of locations in conjunction with prefixes.
- за- (za-) + Кавка́з (Kavkáz, “Caucasus”) + -ье (-ʹje) → Закавка́зье (Zakavkázʹje, “Transcaucasia”)
- при- (pri-) + Днестр (Dnestr, “Dniester”) + -о́вый (-óvyj) + -ье (-ʹje) → Приднестро́вье (Pridnestróvʹje, “Transnistria”)
Usage notes edit
- The stress is drawn onto the preceding syllable.
- A velar may turn into a palatal as a result of the Slavic first palatalization (as in подно́жье (podnóžʹje)).