azъ

azъ Grammatical information: prn. Proto-Slavic meaning: `I'

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Old Church Slavic:

azъ `I' [prnprs]

Russian:

ja `I' [prnprs]

Old Russian:

(j)azъ `I' [prnprs]

Czech:

já `I' [prnprs]

Old Czech:

jáz `I' [prnprs]

Polish:

ja `I' [prnprs]

Old Polish:

jaz (Flor.) `I' [prnprs] \{1\};

ja `I' [prnprs]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȃ `I' [prnprs];

jȁz (dial.) `I' [prnprs];

Čak. jå̃ (Vrgada) `I' [prnprs];

Čak. jȁ (Novi) `I' [prnprs];

Čak. jã (Orbanići) `I, me' [prnprs]

Slovene:

jàz `I' [prnprs]

Bulgarian:

az `I' [prnprs];

ja (dial.) `I' [prnprs]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: eʔź-um; eś (?)

Lithuanian:

àš `I' [prnprs];

eš (OLith.) `I' [prnprs]

Latvian:

es `I' [prnprs];

ęs (dial.) `I' [prnprs]

Old Prussian:

as `I' [prnprs];

es `I' [prnprs]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₁eǵ-H-om

IE meaning: I

Page in Pokorny: 291

Comments: The distribution of *jazъ and *ja suggest that the latter form is a Proto-Slavic innovation (Kortlandt forthc.).

Other cognates:

Skt. ahám `I' [prnprs];

Gk. ἐγώ `I' [prnprs];

Go. ik `I' [prnprs]

Notes:

\{1\} Possibly a Bohemianism.