Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/(j)uže

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 *ju +‎ *že.

The first part might possibly be *u, in which case this would be a cognate with Proto-Germanic *auk, Ancient Greek αὖγε (aûge).

Particle

*(j)uže

1. already
2. anymore

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ужо́ (užó)
    • Russian: уже́ (užé), ужо́ (užó)
    • Old Ukrainian: оуже (uže), оужь (užʹ), вже (vže), вжо (vžo)
      • Ukrainian: вже (vže), уже (uže)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: юже (juže)

    Glagolitic script: ⱓⰶⰵ (juže)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ју̏р, ју̏ре, ју̑р, ју̃р (dialectal, dated)

    Latin script: jȕr, jȕre, jȗr, jũr (dialectal, dated)

  • Slovene: jur
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: juže, juž
    • Czech: již
  • Polabian: jauz
  • Polish: już; juże, uż (dialectal, dated)
  • Slovak: už
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: juž, južo
    • Upper Sorbian: juž, južo, hižo, huž

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*ju že”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 191
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “уже́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress