Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mělъkъ

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

From *mělъ +‎ *-ъkъ.

Adjective

*mělъkъ

1. small, little; shallow

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣлъкъ (mělŭkŭ)
    • Belarusian: ме́лкі (mjélki)
    • Russian: ме́лкий (mélkij)
    • Ukrainian: мілки́й (milkýj)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: мѣлъкъ (mělŭkŭ)
    • Bulgarian:
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified script:

    Latin script: mȅok

  • Slovene:

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: mělký
  • Polish: miałki
  • Slovak: melký
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mjałki, měłki
    • Upper Sorbian: miłki

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́лкий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mělъ; *mělъkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 310