аз
BulgarianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- а́зе (áze), я́зе (jáze), я (ja) – regional
- ес (es) – dialectal
- азъ (az) (Pre-reform orthography (1945))
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ),[1] from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.[2][3][4]
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
аз • (az) (personal)
- I; the first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case, used as the subject of a verb.
- Аз съм по-висо́ка от теб.
- Az sǎm po-visóka ot teb.
- I am taller than you.
- Аз не гово́ря англи́йски.
- Az ne govórja anglíjski.
- I don't speak English.
Related termsEdit
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Prepositional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | Short | Full | Short | |||||
| Singular | First | — | аз (az) | мен (men) ме́не (méne) |
ме (me) | ме́не (méne) | ми (mi) | мен (men) ме́не (méne) |
| Second | Informal | ти (ti) | теб (teb) те́бе (tébe) |
те (te) | те́бе (tébe) | ти (ti) | теб (teb) те́бе (tébe) | |
| Formal | Ви́е (Víe) | Вас (Vas) | Ви (Vi) | Вам (Vam) | Ви (Vi) | Вас (Vas) | ||
| Third | Masculine | той (toj) | не́го (négo) | го (go) | не́му (nému) | му (mu) | не́го (négo) | |
| Feminine | тя (tja) | не́я (néja) | я (ja) | ней (nej) | ѝ (ì) | не́я (néja) | ||
| Neuter | то (to) | не́го (négo) | го (go) | не́му (nému) | му (mu) | не́го (négo) | ||
| Plural | First | — | ни́е (níe) ний (nij) |
нас (nas) | ни (ni) | нам (nam) | ни (ni) | нас (nas) |
| Second | Informal | ви́е (víe) вий (vij) |
вас (vas) | ви (vi) | вам (vam) | ви (vi) | вас (vas) | |
| Formal | Ви́е (Víe) | Вас (Vas) | Ви (Vi) | Вам (Vam) | Ви (Vi) | Вас (Vas) | ||
| Third | — | те (te) | тях (tjah) | ги (gi) | тям (tjam) | им (im) | тях (tjah) | |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 5
- ^ Mate Kapović, Reconstruction of Balto-Slavic Personal Pronouns (2006)
- ^ Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 5
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*azъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 100
ChechenEdit
EtymologyEdit
From *awaz, from a Turkic language, ultimately from Persian آواز. Compare Tatar аваз (awaz).
NounEdit
аз • (az)
KazakhEdit
| Cyrillic | аз (az) |
|---|---|
| Arabic | از |
| Latin |
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Turkish az, Azerbaijani az, etc.
AdverbEdit
аз • (az)
KumykEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.
AdverbEdit
аз • (az)
Derived termsEdit
- бираз (biraz)
Further readingEdit
- аз in Kumyksko-russkij slovarʹ, 2013
KyrgyzEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.
AdverbEdit
аз • (az)
MongolianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Often paired and contrasted with эз (ez, “omen, fate”).
Morphologically it looks like the Mongolic defective verb *a- (“be”) + -з (-z) (ᠵᠠ (ǰa) ) suffix, but the semantics are unclear.
PronunciationEdit
- (Ulaanbaatar) IPA(key): /at͡s/, [at͡s]
NounEdit
аз • (az) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠵᠠ (aǰa))
Derived termsEdit
- аз жаргал (az žargal, “happiness”)
OssetianEdit
NounEdit
аз • (az)
RussianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- азъ (az) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From the pronoun with the same spelling, see below.
NounEdit
аз • (az) m inan (genitive аза́, nominative plural азы́, genitive plural азо́в)
- (archaic) name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
- Synonym: а (a)
- (plural only, dated) letters
- (plural only) basics, fundamentals
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- а́збука (ázbuka)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.
PronounEdit
аз • (az)
PronounEdit
- (colloquial, ironic) yours truly, your humble servant (as a self-deprecating, third-person reference to oneself)
DeclensionEdit
TajikEdit
| Dari | از |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | аз (az) |
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭭 (az).
PrepositionEdit
аз • (az)
TatarEdit
AdverbEdit
аз • (az)