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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/niščь

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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 the same source as *nizъ.

Adjective

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*nìščь[1]

  1. poor, destitute

Inflection

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Accent paradigm a.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нищь (niščĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ни́щий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nìščь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353