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

Etymology

From the same source as *nizъ.

Adjective

*nìščь[1]

  1. poor, destitute

Inflection

Accent paradigm a.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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

References

  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