Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьľьjь

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*dьľьjь

1. longer; comparative degree of *dьlgъ, *dьlgo

• *dalь, *daľekъ
• *dolъ

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: до́льше (dólʹše), до́лее (dóleje), до́ле (dóle)
  • Ukrainian: до́вший (dóvšyj), до́вше (dóvše)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: дьле (dĭle), дъле (dŭle, adv.) (13th century)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: да̏љӣ

    Latin script: dȁljī

  • Slovene: dlje (adv.), dljej (adv.)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: delí m, delši f, delše n, déle (adv.)
    • Czech: delší, déle
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dlěje, dlěši
    • Lower Sorbian: dlej, dlejšy

• Đuro Daničić, Matija Valjavac, Pero Budmani, editor (1884–1886), “dȕg”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 2, Zagreb: JAZU, page 854
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дольше”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “длина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “длиться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 256