Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/męti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *minˀtei. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian mìnti (“to trample, to scutch”), Latvian mĩt (“to trample, to scutch”). Further cognates unclear:
- Derksen says "doubtful whether there are any cognates outside of Balto-Slavic".[1]
- Trubačev proposes Ancient Greek ματέω (matéō, “to trample, to tread”) from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tew-oh₂.[2]
- Shansky additionally proposes Irish men (“flour”).[3]
Verb
Conjugation
- 1sg. *mьnǫ (AP b)
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: мѧти (męti)
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: мъ́на (mǎ́na)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: mẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 18
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mę̀ti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 315: “It is doubtful whether there are any cognates outside Balto-Slavic (cf. LIV: 438).”
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 19
- ^ Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “мять”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mę̀ti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 315: “v. ‘compress, crumple, scutch’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “męti: mьnǫ mьnetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 203, 248, 251; PR 136; ?MP 27)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “mẹ́ti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*mę̋ti, sed. *mьnǫ̋”