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Where does “још” come from?

још (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic (j)ešče, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁).

Ancestry of “још”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic(j)eščestill, yet
2Proto-Indo-European*h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁)—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁) →