-ье

See also: -ъё

Mongolian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iː]
• Hyphenation: -ье

Suffix

-ье • (-ʹje)

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

Russian

Alternative forms

• -ьё (-ʹjó), -ие (-ije)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʲje]

Suffix

-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

• The stress is drawn onto the preceding syllable.
• A velar may turn into a palatal as a result of the Slavic first palatalization (as in подно́жье (podnóžʹje)).

Declension

Declension of -ье (inan neut-form vowel-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	-ье -ʹje	-ья -ʹja
genitive	-ья -ʹja	-ий -ij
dative	-ью -ʹju	-ьям -ʹjam
accusative	-ье -ʹje	-ья -ʹja
instrumental	-ьем -ʹjem	-ьями -ʹjami
prepositional	-ье -ʹje	-ьях -ʹjax

Derived terms

Russian terms suffixed with -ье