Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mętežь

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 *męsti +‎ *-ežь.

Noun

*mętežь m

1. riot, unrest
2. confusion, chaos

Declension

Declension of *mętežь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mętežь	*męteža	*męteži
genitive	*męteža	*mętežu	*mętežь
dative	*mętežu	*mętežema	*mętežemъ
accusative	*mętežь	*męteža	*mętežę̇
instrumental	*mętežьmь, *mętežemь*	*mętežema	*męteži
locative	*męteži	*mętežu	*mętežixъ
vocative	*mętežu	*męteža	*męteži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѧтежь (mętežĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: мѧтежъ (mjatež), метежь (metežʹ)
      • Belarusian: мяце́ж (mjacjéž)
      • Ukrainian: меті́ж (metíž)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѧтежь (mętežĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱔⱅⰵⰶⱐ (mętežĭ)

    • → Russian: мяте́ж (mjatéž)
  • Bulgarian: мете́ж (metéž)
  • Macedonian: метеж (metež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме́теж

    Latin script: métež

  • Slovene: mẹ̑tež (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mětež, mietež
  • Slovak: mätež

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mętežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 17