žywy
Lower Sorbian
/ˈʒɨwɨ/
adjective
Definitions
- alive, living
- used with byś (to be) to mean ‘to live’
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *živъ (alive) inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀwas inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (alive).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷih₃wós
Gloss
alive
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- живой Russian
- *gʷeih₃w- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European
- *kwikwaz Proto-Germanic
- *kwiwaz Proto-Germanic
- żywy Polish
- *živъ Proto-Slavic
- živý Czech
- živ Serbo-Croatian
- жив Serbo-Croatian
- живост Serbo-Croatian
- жив Bulgarian
- *biwos Proto-Celtic
- *biwotūts Proto-Celtic
- жив Macedonian
- живий Ukrainian
- *ǰiHwás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- živý Slovak
- жывы Belarusian
- *gʷīwos Proto-Italic
- živ Slovene
- живъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *gīˀwas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *gīˀwás Proto-Balto-Slavic
- 𐎪𐎡𐎺 Old Persian
- *gīˀwás bat-pro