Little words

I

Source:*azъProto-Slavic · “I (also *jazъ)”certain

Old Church Slavonic still wrote азъ; the living languages dropped the final z of the variant *jazъ.

I knowI'm learning

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Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
яja
jainherited
Ukrainian
яja
jainherited
Polish
ja
jainherited
Czech
já
jaːinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
jaја
jainherited
English
I
Distant English relative — English I, German ich, Latin ego and Slavic *azъ go back to one Indo-European pronoun.