Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/a

Etymology 1
From. According to the usual doctrine, the initial form was, ablative singular of the PIE demonstrative pronoun. However, that demonstrative has no such ablative singular attested in any of the daughter languages, so that hypothesis remains unprovable.

The same PIE proto-form could have also yielded Sanskrit and Avestan.

Conjunction

 * 1) but
 * 2) and

Descendants

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Etymology 2
, from, ultimately a. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Although the Proto-Indo-European form is reconstructed, this interjection could arise at any stage.

Interjection

 * 1) ; ah!

Descendants

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