Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/metati
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same root as *mestì (“to throw, to sweep”).
Verb
[edit]- (transitive) to throw
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *metati, *meta, *meťetь (impf., tr., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*metanьje | *metati | *metatъ | *metalъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *metanъ | *meťemъ |
Active | *metavъ | *meťę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *metaxъ | *meta | *meta | *meťǫ | *meťeši | *meťetь |
Dual | *metaxově | *metasta | *metaste | *meťevě | *meťeta | *meťete |
Plural | *metaxomъ | *metaste | *metašę | *meťemъ | *meťete | *meťǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *metaaxъ | *metaaše | *metaaše | — | *meťi | *meťi |
Dual | *metaaxově | *metaašeta | *metaašete | *meťivě | *meťita | — |
Plural | *metaaxomъ | *metaašete | *metaaxǫ | *meťimъ | *meťite | — |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мечу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мета́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 527
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*metati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 112
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*metàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 309: “v. (b) ‘throw’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “metati: metjǫ metjetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b kaste (SA 210; PT 136)”