Etymology Explorer › Old Polish

Where does “-ie” come from?

-ie (Old Polish) comes from Proto-Slavic -ę, from Proto-Indo-European -ę.

Ancestry of “-ie”, step by step

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