Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₁
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Compare Tocharian A/B mā (“not, no”), not a prohibitive particle. According to Martirosyan, if the word originally meant ‘not’ and later obtained the function of the prohibitive, we are dealing with an Armeno-Greek-Albanian-Indo-Iranian grammatical isogloss.
Particle
*meh₁
- prohibitive particle
See also
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *mē
- Albanian: mo
- Proto-Albanian: *mē tše
- Albanian: mos
- Proto-Armenian:
- Proto-Hellenic: *mḗ
- Ancient Greek: μή (mḗ)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *maH (see there for further descendants)
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References
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 468f
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship[1], number 10, § 3.4, page 91
- Abajev, V. I. (1973) “ma”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 60f