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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-ьje.
Suffix
-ие • (-ie) n
- Deverbal, forming action or result nouns: -tion, -ance, -ing
- вям (vjam, “to be aware”) (archaic, obsolete) → ведие (vedie, “knowledge”) (obsolete) → езиковедие (ezikovedie, “linguistics”)
- въстана (vǎstana, “to revel”) → въстание (vǎstanie, “uprising”)
- нарека (nareka, “to call”) → наречие (narečie, “adverb”)
- примиря се (primirja se, “to put up with”) → примирие (primirie, “truce”)
- участвам (učastvam, “to participate”) → участие (učastie, “participation”)
- допирам (dopiram, “to touch, to contact”) → допирие (dopirie, “contact, incidence”) (dialectal)
Derived terms
Suffix
-ие • (-ie) n
- Denominal, forming abstract nouns or nouns expressing capacity, state: -th, -ness, -ing
- From adjectives:
- здрав (zdrav, “healthy”) → здраве (zdrave, “health”)
- висок (visok, “high”) → височие (visočie, “highness”)
- велик (velik, “great”) → величие (veličie, “greatness”)
- цял (cjal, “whole”) + мъдър (mǎdǎr, “wise”) → целомъдрие (celomǎdrie, “chastity”)
- From action, result nouns:
- услов (uslov, “term, claim”) (obsolete) → условие (uslovie, “condition”)
- зло (zlo, “evil”) + воня (vonja, “odor, stink”) → зловоние (zlovonie, “stench”)
- бог (bog, “god”) + хула (hula, “insult”) → богохулие (bogohulie, “blasphemy”)
- човек (čovek, “human”) + любов (ljubov, “love”) → човеколюбие (čovekoljubie, “philanthropy”)
- From quality, property nouns:
- с- (s-) + част (čast, “part”) → щастие (štastie, “fortune”)
- добро (dobro, “good”) + душа (duša, “soul”) → добродушие (dobrodušie, “fortune”)
- благо (blago, “virtue”) + прилика (prilika, “similarity”) → благоприличие (blagopriličie, “decency”)
- лихо (liho, “excess”) + мисъл (misǎl, “thought”) → лихомислие (lihomislie, “fault thinking”) (obsolete)
- From adverbs:
- налице (nalice, “in presence”) → наличие (naličie, “presence, availability”)
- насила (nasila, “forcefully”) → насилие (nasilie, “violence”)
- Denominal, forming nouns expressing relationship, way, outcome: -th, -ness, -ing
- From base words:
- уста (usta, “mouth”) → устие (ustie, “estuary”)
- стъбло (stǎblo, “stem”) → стъблие (stǎblie, “stemming, branching”) (dialectal)
- Prefixed with из- (iz-, “out of”):
- из- (iz-) + дело (delo, “deed”) → изделие (izdelie, “product”)
- из- (iz-) + чедо (čedo, “child”) → изчадие (izčadie, “abomination”) (originally meaning “spawn”)
- Prefixed with за- (za-, “trans-, for”):
- за- (za-) + гора (gora, “forest”) → загорие (zagorie, “transylvan area”)
- за- (za-) + глава (glava, “head”) → заглавие (zaglavie, “chapter, header”)
- Prefixed with до- (do-, “to, near”):
- до- (do-) + вяра (vjara, “faint”) → доверие (doverie, “trust, confidence”)
- до- (do-) + год (god, “year”) (dated) → догодие (dogodie, “remainder of the year”) (dialectal)
- Prefixed with с- (s-), съ- (sǎ-, “with”):
- съ- (sǎ-) + звук (zvuk, “sound”) → съзвучие (sǎzvučie, “consonance”)
- с- (s-) + полука (poluka, “reached target, goal”) (dialectal) → сполучие (spolučie, “prosperity”)
- Prefixed with о- (o-)/об- (ob-, “about, around”):
- о- (o-) + гърло (gǎrlo, “neck”) → огърлие (ogǎrlie, “necklace”)
- об- (ob-) + ход (hod, “walk”) → обходие (obhodie, “side way”) (obsolete)
- Prefixed with на- (na-, “on, ad-”), над- (nad-, “above, over”):
- на- (na-) + вечер (večer, “eve”) → навечерие (navečerie, “evening”)
- над- (nad-) + вес (ves, “hanging, curtain”) → надвесие (nadvesie, “arch, dome”) (obsolete)
- Prefixed with под- (pod-, “under”):
- под- (pod-) + земя (zemja, “earth”) → подземие (podzemie, “dungeon”)
- под- (pod-) + нога (noga, “foot”) → подножие (podnožie, “foothold”)
- Prefixed with по- (po-, “by, of”):
- по- (po-) + доба (doba, “proper time, place”) → подобие (podobie, “resemblance”)
- по- (po-) + кор (kor, “reproach, reprimand”) (archaic) → покорие (pokorie, “submissiveness”) (obsolete)
- Prefixed with по- (po-, “at”):
- по- (po-) + река (reka, “river”) → поречие (porečie, “riverside area”)
- по- (po-) + море (more, “river”) → поморие (pomorie, “seaside area”)
- Prefixed with край- (kraj-, “nearby”)
- край- (kraj-) + бряг (brjag, “forest”) → крайбрежие (krajbrežie, “coastal area”)
- край- (kraj-) + лес (les, “wood”) → крайлесие (krajlesie, “woodside area”)
- Prefixed with при- (pri-, “at”), пре- (pre-, “per”), про- (pro-, “for”):
- при- (pri-) + глас (glas, “voice”) → пригласие (priglasie, “ovation, supporting chatter”) (obsolete)
- пре- (pre-) + межда (mežda, “boundary, medium”) → премеждие (premeždie, “obstacle, misadventure”)
- Forms instrumental nouns (usually tools and weapons) expressing purpose, functionality:
- From verbal stems:
- копая (kopaja, “to ditch”) → копие (kopie, “spear”)
- From instrumental nouns:
- пособ (posob, “mean”) → пособие (posobie, “resource for self-education”)
- Prefixes with об-/о-:
- о- (o-) + *rǫdъ (“prickly, thorny, shaggy”) → оръдие (orǎdie, “cannon, instrument”)
- о- (o-) + *rǫgъ (“offense, assault”) → оръжие (orǎžie, “weaponry”)
Usage notes
Often, -ие (-ie) is used in combination with the prefix без- (bez-, “without”) to form abstract concepts expressing lack, non-presence, or shortage:
- From action nouns:
- власт (vlast, “authority, rule”) → безвластие (bezvlastie, “anarchy”)
- смърт (smǎrt, “death”) → безсмъртие (bezsmǎrtie, “immortality”)
- дело (delo, “deed, case”) → безделие (bezdelie, “idleness”)
- мълва (mǎlva, “rumour”) → безмълвие (bezmǎlvie, “muteness”)
- From spatial/temporal concepts:
- ред (red, “order, array”) → безредие (bezredie, “disarray”)
- хармония (harmonija, “harmony”) → безхармоние (bezharmonie, “disharmony”)
- време (vreme, “time”) → безвремие (bezvremie, “timelessness”)
- срок (srok, “term, deadline”) → безсрочие (bezsročie, “without deadline”)
- From gauge/measurement nouns:
- разлика (razlika, “difference”) → безразличие (bezrazličie, “indifference”)
- тегло (teglo, “weight”) → безтегловие (bezteglovie, “weightlessness”)
- From task/capacity nouns:
- грижа (griža, “concern”) → безгрижие (bezgrižie, “carelessness”)
- сила (sila, “force”) → безсилие (bezsilie, “impotence, helplessness”)
- From substance/phenomenon nouns:
- вода (voda, “water”) → безводие (bezvodie, “aridity”)
- вятър (vjatǎr, “death”) → безветрие (bezvetrie, “windlessness”)
- From abstract nouns:
- право (pravo, “right”) → безправие (bezpravie, “lawlessness”)
- дар (dar, “gift, talent”) → бездарие (bezdarie, “lack of talent”)
- From objectifying concepts:
- образ (obraz, “image, form”) → безобразие (bezobrazie, “disgrace”)
- предмет (predmet, “subject, topic”) → безпредметие (bezpredmetie, “lack of topic/reason”)
- From perception nouns:
- срам (sram, “shame”) → безсрамие (bezsramie, “shamelessness”)
- страх (strah, “fear”) → безстрашие (bezstrašie, “fearlessness”)
- чувство (čuvstvo, “feeling”) → безчувствие (bezčuvstvie, “numbness”)
- вкус (vkus, “taste”) → безвкусие (bezvkusie, “tastelessness”)
- From perceptive nouns:
- око (oko, “eye”) → безочие (bezočie, “impudence”)
- ум (um, “mind”) → безумие (bezumie, “madness, folly”)
- душа (duša, “soul”) → бездушие (bezdušie, “soullessness”)
- сърце (sǎrce, “heart”) → безсърдечие (bezsǎrdečie, “heartlessness”)
- -е (-e), -ье (-je) — reduced
Suffix
-ие • (-ie) n
- Forms collective plurals:
- Of creatures:
- люд (ljud, “person, folk”) (dated, obsolete) → люде (ljude, “people”)
- нав (nav, “undead”) (obsolete) → наве (nave, “dead spirits”) (obsolete)
- Of natural elements:
- камък (kamǎk, “stone”) → камъне (kamǎne, “rocks”) (poetic)
- дърво (dǎrvo, “tree”) → дърве (dǎrve, “trees, wood”) (poetic)
- Forms collective nouns expressing aggregation or clustering:
- From a plain word:
- грозд (grozd, “grape”) → грозде (grozde, “grape”) (collective)
- цвят (cvjat, “blossom”) → цвете (cvete, “flower”)
- Prefixed with съ-:
- съ- (sǎ-) + звезда (zvezda, “star”) → съзвездие (sǎzvezdie, “constellation”)
- съ- (sǎ-) + цвят (cvjat, “blossom”) → съцветие (sǎcvetie, “inflorescence”)
- Prefixes with об-/о-:
- об- (ob-) + *vilo (“winding”) → обилие (obilie, “abundance”) (literally: “enveloping → endlessness”)
- о- (o-) + коло (kolo, “wheel”) (obsolete) → околие (okolie, “surroundings”) (literally: “that is encircled”)
- Prefixed with a numeric term:
- дву- (dvu-, “bi-”) + лице (lice, “face”) → двуличие (dvuličie, “hypocrisy”) (literally: “two-facedness”)
- сто- (sto-, “centi-”) + лято (ljato, “summer”) → столетие (stoletie, “century”) (literally: “100 summers”)
- Forms collective nouns expressing extension, span:
- -е (-e), -ье (-je) — reduced
Derived terms
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic -иѥ (-ije), from Proto-Slavic *-ьje. Doublet of -ье (-ʹje) and -ьё (-ʹjó), the inherited forms.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ие • (-ije)
- Abstract noun suffix; forms part of larger suffixes such as -е́ние (-énije), -а́ние (-ánije), -тие (-tije), and exists on its own especially as a suffix added to compound words.
- много- (mnogo-, “many”) + о́браз (óbraz, “image”) + -ие (-ije) → многообра́зие (mnogoobrázije, “variety, diversity”)
- ма́ло- (málo-, “little”) + дух (dux, “courage”) + -ие (-ije) → малоду́шие (malodúšije, “cowardice”)
- пло́ско- (plósko-, “flat”) + стопа́ (stopá, “foot”) + -ие (-ije) → плоскосто́пие (ploskostópije, “flatfoot (medical condition)”)
- само- (samo-, “self”) + люби́ть (ljubítʹ, “to love”) + -ие (-ije) → самолю́бие (samoljúbije, “self-esteem, self-respect”)
- со- (so-, “con-”) + звезда́ (zvezdá, “star”) + -ие (-ije) → созве́здие (sozvézdije, “constellation”)
Usage notes
Declension
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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-ие -ije
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-ия -ija
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genitive
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-ия -ija
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-ий -ij
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dative
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-ию -iju
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-иям -ijam
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accusative
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-ие -ije
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-ия -ija
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instrumental
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-ием -ijem
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-иями -ijami
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prepositional
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-ии -ii
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-иях -ijax
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Derived terms