IE *-KWE ‘AND; IF’ IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES
IE *-KWE ‘AND; IF’ IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the origin and functional development of the Slavic conjunction ače ‘if; although’ (OPol. acz). The marker of the protasis in conditional clauses was the enclitic *-če, which continues the function of IE *-kwe ‘and; if’. Thus, Sl. *-če ‘if’ is an archaism and may be compared with corresponding forms in Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Latin. The concessive ače ‘although’ evolved from conditional concessive clauses. TheproposedinterpretationalsoshedslightonthegenesisofOCz.leč‘ifonly’.

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