See also: -ъё

Mongolian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [iː]
  • Hyphenation: -ье

Suffix

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-ье (-ʹje)

  1. front vowel harmonic form of -ъя (-ʺja)

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic -ьѥ, -ье (-ĭje, -ĭje), from Proto-Slavic *-ьje. Doublet of -ие (-ije), a borrowing from Church Slavonic.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-ье (-ʹje)

  1. 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))
  2. 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

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Declension

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Derived terms

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