Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rajь
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Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).
Noun edit
*ràjь m
Declension edit
Declension of *ràjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Related terms edit
- *radǫga (“rainbow”) (in East Slavic, prefix *ra- linked by folk etymology with *rajь)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Romanian: rai
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рай”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 533