Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mey-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*mey-^[1]

to strengthen

Derived terms

*moy-ni-
- Italic:
  - Latin: moenia, mūniō
*moy-ro-
- Proto-Italic: *moiros
  - Latin: mūrus

Root

*mey-^[2]

to bind

Derived terms

*mi-tró-s
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: μίτρα (mítra)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrás (see there for further descendants)

Root

*mey-^[3]

to change, exchange
to change places → to go past

Alternative reconstructions

*h₂mey-, if *h₂meygʷ- (“to exchange, to wander”) (compare Ancient Greek ἀμείβω (ameíbō) and Latin migro) belongs here.

Derived terms

Template:PIE root see

*moy-nos ~ *moy-nes-os
- Proto-Italic: *moinos
  - Latin: moenus, mūnus
  - Oscan: muinikeí
*moy-ni-
- Proto-Celtic: *moinis (“treasure, precious object”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *mainiz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *moinis
  - Latin: mūnis, mūnia
*ḱom-moy-ni-
- Proto-Germanic: *gamainiz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *kommoinis
  - Latin: commūnis (see there for further descendants)
*n̥-moy-ni-
- Proto-Italic: *enmoinis
  - Latin: immūnis (see there for further descendants)
*m(e)y-t-s
- Italic:
  - Latin: trāmes, (trā)mes (with *terh₂-) (see there for further descendants)
*mi-t-eh₂
- Proto-Italic: *sēmitā
  - Latin: sēmita, (sē)mita (with *swé) (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted formations:
- Italic:
  - ⇒ Latin: meō

Root

*mey-^[4]^[5]

small, little

Alternative reconstructions

*meyh₁-^[6] See also *smey-, whence Latin mīca, Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós)/ μικρός (mikrós), English smicker.

Derived terms

*mi-néh₁- ~ *mi-nh₁-
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mináHti
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mináHti
    - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
*mi-néw- ~ *mi-nu-^[7]
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mináwti
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mináwti
    - Sanskrit: मिनोति (minóti)
- Italic: *minuō
  - Latin: minuō
*mi-nos- (“smaller, less”, comparative) (with *n from the verb)
- Proto-Italic: *minōs, *minos
  - Latin: minor, minus
*mi-nu-yos- ~ *mi-nw-is- (“smaller, less”, comparative) (with *n from the verb)
- Proto-Germanic: *minniz, *minnizô (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted formations:
- Anatolian:
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=..
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=., *mьňьjь (“smaller, lesser”)
    - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=., менее (meneje, “less”)
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Old Norse: mjór
- Hellenic:
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *manā́k
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *manā́k
    - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Italic:
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Proto-Tocharian: *menke
  - Tocharian A: mank
  - Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.

References

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 709
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710
^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “minder”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 711
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[3], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 709

[2] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710

[3] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710

[Philippa_EWN_2009-4] Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “minder”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

[5] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 711

[6] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[Ringe_2006-7] Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[3], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mey-

Contents

Proto-Indo-European

Root

Derived terms

Root

Derived terms

Root

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

Root

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

References

Navigation menu

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mey-

Proto-Indo-European

Root

Derived terms

Root

Derived terms

Root

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

Root

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

References

Navigation menu

Search