FromProto-Balto-Slavic *ge , fromProto-Indo-European *gʰe ( “ emphatic particle ” ) , cognate withSanskrit घ ( gha ,“ at least, at any rate ” ) and akin toSanskrit हि ( hi ,“ for, on account of, indeed ” ) .
*že
so that ,since intensifying or emphatic particle
East Slavic:Old East Slavic:же ( že ) Old Ruthenian:же ( že ) Belarusian:жа ( ža ) Carpathian Rusyn:же ( že ) Ukrainian:же ( že ) ,ж ( ž ) Russian:же ( že ) ,ж ( ž ) South Slavic:Old Church Slavonic:Old Cyrillic script:же ( že ) Glagolitic script:ⰶⰵ ( že ) Serbo-Croatian:( archaic, only survives as non-productive suffix ) Cyrillic script:ре Latin script:re Slovene:re ( archaic, only survives as non-productive suffix ) West Slavic:Kashubian:że Old Polish:-że Old Slovak:že Pannonian Rusyn:же ( že ) Slovak:že Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:že ( archaic ) Trubachyov, Oleg , editor (1981 ), “*jь (že), *ja (že), *je (že) ”, inЭтимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages ] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga ), Moscow: Nauka, page204 Trubachyov, Oleg , editor (1981 ), “*ju že ”, inЭтимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages ] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga ), Moscow: Nauka, page191 *že [ 1] [ 2]
emphatic enclitic Trubachyov, Oleg , editor (1977 ), “*da že ”, inЭтимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages ] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa ), Moscow: Nauka, page181 Georgiev, Vladimir I. , editor (1971 ), “-же ”, inБългарски етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary ] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З ), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House,→ISBN , page528 ^ Derksen, Rick (2008 ) “*že”, inEtymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN ,page554 : “ptcl. ” ^ Olander, Thomas (2001 ) “-že”, inCommon Slavic Accentological Word List [1] , Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “(encl.; cf. jь-že) (rel. marker) (PR 139, 145) ”