Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/němьčьskъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *němьcь (“foreigner, non-Slav; German”) + *-ьskъ.
Adjective
edit*němьčьskъ[1]
Declension
editIndefinite declension of *němьčьskъ (hard)
Definite declension of *němьčьskъ (hard)
Descendants
editOnly the definite form of the adjective survives in most languages. However, the indefinite form was still present in Old Church Slavonic.
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Kashubian: niemiecczi
- Old Czech: němečský
- Czech: německý
- Old Polish: niemiecki, niemiecski
- Old Slovak: nemecký
- Slovak: nemecký
References
edit- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*němьčьskъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 104