Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ešče

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *eske, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éskʷe, probably a compound of *h₁es- (“to be”) +‎ *-kʷe (conjunctive enclitic).

Particle

*(j)ešče

1. yet
2. still

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Old Ruthenian: єще (ješče), єсче (jesče), єщо (ješčo), ище (išče)
      • Belarusian: яшчэ́ (jaščé), шчэ (šče)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ще (šče), щи (ščy), ищи (yščy), іщи (iščy)
      • Ukrainian: ще (šče), іще́ (iščé)
    • Russian: ещё (ješčó), ещежды (ješčeždy), ощо (oščo) (dialectal), ешто (ješto) (dialectal)
  • Old Novgorodian: ѥще (jeśće)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: еще (ešte)
  • Bulgarian: о́ще (óšte), еще (ešte) (obsolete), ешче (ešče) (dialectal), йошкье (joškje) (Torlakian dialect)
  • Macedonian: уште (ušte)
  • Serbo-Croatian

    Cyrillic: јо̏ш, јо̏шт, јо̏ште

    Latin: jȍš, jȍšt, jȍšte

  • Slovene: šȅ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: jesz
  • Old Czech: ješče
    • Czech: ještě
  • Old Polish: jeszcze
    • Polish: jeszcze, eszcze (Malbork)
    • Silesian: jeszcze
  • Polabian: jist, hist
  • Slovak: ešte
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hišće
    • Lower Sorbian: hyšći