Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mertéi

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Verb

*mertéi^[1]^[2]^[3]

to die

Inflection

Mobile accent, j-present *mirjetí.

Conjugation of *mertéi* (j-present, mobile accent)
infinitive			mertéi
singular				dual			plural
	first person	second person	third person	first person	second person	third person	first person	second person	third person
present	*mírjōˀ(n)	?	*mirjetí	?	?	?	*mírjemas	*mírjete	*mirjantí

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: miert
- Latvian: mìrt
- Lithuanian: mir̃ti
- Samogitian: mėrtė
Proto-Slavic: *mertì (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*merti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308: “*mer-; *mir-”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “mirti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321: “*mer-; *mir-”
^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017), The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197: “Another [inherited case with phonologically regular mobility] is *mь̏r(j)ǫ, *mьr(j)etь̍ ‘die’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*merti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308: “*mer-; *mir-”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015), “mirti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321: “*mer-; *mir-”

[3] Jasanoff, Jay (2017), The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197: “Another [inherited case with phonologically regular mobility] is *mь̏r(j)ǫ, *mьr(j)etь̍ ‘die’”

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