Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/narěčьje

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *na- +‎ *rěčь +‎ *-ьje.

Noun

*narě̀čьje n

1. idiom, manner something is expressed

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: нарѣ́чиѥ (narě́čije)
    • Old Ruthenian: нарѣ́чїє (narě́čije)
      • Belarusian: нарэ́ч'е (naréčʺje) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: нарі́чіє (naríčije)
      • Ukrainian: нарі́ччя (naríččja)
    • Russian: наре́чие (naréčije); наре́чье (naréčʹje) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: нарѣчиѥ (narěčije)
  • Bulgarian: наре́чие (naréčie)
  • Macedonian: наречје (narečje)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: на́речје (Ekavian), на́рје̄чје (Ijekavian)

    Latin script: nárečje (Ekavian), nárjēčje (Ijekavian)

  • Slovene: narečje
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: nářečí
  • Polish: narzecze
  • Slovak: nárečie; nářeči̯a (dialectal)
  • Slovincian: narzeczé

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*narěčьje”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 241