Where does “-ѧ” come from?

-ѧ (Old Church Slavonic) comes from Proto-Slavic -ę, from Proto-Indo-European -ę.

-ѧ (Old Church Slavonic): Denominal nominalizing suffix used to form a...

Definitions

  1. Denominal nominalizing suffix used to form a...

Ancestry of “-ѧ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic-ęForms nouns for young animals and other...
2Proto-Indo-European-ę—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ę →Every word from Proto-Slavic -ę →