Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/i li

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

Compound of *i +‎ *li.

Conjunction

*i li

1. or

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: или (ili)
    • Old Ruthenian: и́ли (íli)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: и́ли (ýly), ли (ly) (obsolete)
    • Middle Russian: и́ли (íli), иль (ilʹ)
      • Russian: и́ли (íli), иль (ilʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: или (ili)

    Glagolitic script: ⰻⰾⰻ (ili)

    • Church Slavonic: или (ili) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: или́ (ilí), и́ли (íli)
  • Macedonian: или (ili)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: и̏ли

    Latin script: ȉli

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: ile (obsolete); ili (dialectal)
  • Slovak: ili

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*i li”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 168
• Shansky, N. M., editor (1980), “или”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, number 7 (И), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 48