-ej
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Between the 14 and 16 century a process of changing the vowel ý ([iː]) into ej ([ɛj]) appeared in the Czech language,[1] but most of the new variants have never made it into standard Czech (including new variants of adjective inflectional suffixes).[2]
Suffix
-ej
- (inflectional suffix, common, nonstandard) masculine nominative singular of hard adjectives
- dobrej (“good”)
Etymology 2
Suffix ej appears also in various regional Czech dialects as an inflectional suffix of some cases of feminine adjectives. While in dative and locative it appears in some Moravian regions, in genitive it can be found also in some Bohemian regions, especially in south Bohemia.[3]
Suffix
-ej
References
- Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “-ej”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 32
- František Cuřín, Nejstarší obrozenské divadlo a obrozenská čeština, Naše řeč, volume 68 (1985), issue 5
- Hana Konečná, Deklinace tvrdých adjektiv v nářečích, Naše řeč, volume 82 (1999), issue 4
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