Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/esmь

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi.

Baltic cognates are Lithuanian esmì, Old Prussian asmai.

Indo-European cognates are Tocharian A ṣem, Tocharian B ṣeym, Sanskrit अस्मि (asmi), Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬨𐬍 (ahmī), Old Armenian եմ (em), Hittite 𒂊𒌍𒈪 (esmi), Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimí), Aeolic Greek ἔμμι (émmi), Albanian jam, Latin sum, Proto-Germanic *immi, English am, Old Norse em.

Verb

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*esmь

  1. first-person singular present of *byti (I am)

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*esmь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 32
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “есмь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “быть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 129