From *byti + *-ьje. *<span class="searchmatch">bytьje</span> n existence, beinghood * -ьmь in North <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>, -emь in South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>. East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Old East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: бꙑтье (bytĭje) Old Ruthenian:...
Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/agodьje Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/bezdъždžьje Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/bolnьje Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/<span class="searchmatch">bytьje</span>...
forming action nouns. *žiti (“to live”) → *žitьje (“life”) *byti (“to be”) → *<span class="searchmatch">bytьje</span> (“being”) *bez (“witout”) + *sъmerti (“to die naturally”) → *bezsъmьrtьje...
dictionary of <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 155 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*<span class="searchmatch">bytьje</span>”, in Этимологический...