User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂y-

This 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly reanalyzed from *méh₂-ye-ti, from *meh₂- (“to beckon”) +‎ *-yeti.

Alternative reconstructions

• *mey-

Root

*meh₂y-

1. to deceive, hurt

Derived terms

• *méh₂i-se-ti (se-present)
  • Proto-Italic: *maiseō
    • Latin: maereō (“to be sad, mourn”)

• *meh₂y-éh₂
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *maHyáH
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *maHyáH
      • Sanskrit: माया (māyā́, “power; illusion, deception; apparition”)
        • ⇒ Sanskrit: मायिन् (māyin)
    • Proto-Iranian: *maHyáH
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬁𐬌𐬌𐬁 (māiiā)

• *méh₂y-ō ~ *mih₂-nés
  • Proto-Germanic: *mainaz (“false; hurtful”)
    • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *mainą
    • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *mainjaną (“to demean, harm”)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mayHníš
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mayHníš
      • Sanskrit: मेनि (mení, “revenge, harming, magical power”)
    • Proto-Iranian: *mayHníš
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬌 (maēni, “punishment, castigation”)

• *mih₂-mó-s
  • Proto-Hellenic: *mīmós
    • Ancient Greek: μῖμος (mîmos, “deceit, focus, magician”)

• *mh₂i-s-o-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mHišam
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mHišam
      • Sanskrit: मिष (miṣa, “illusion, fraud, deceit”)

Unsorted formations

• Proto-Slavic: *mȃmъ (“deceit”)
  • Czech: mam (“deceit, error, (dial.) apparition, ghost”)
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȃm (“lure, bait, temptation, charm, frenzy”)
  • Old Church Slavonic: mamъ (mamŭ, “foolish”)
  • Slovak: mam (“deceit, mirage”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *mamiti (“to deceive”) (merger with *manǫti (“to beckon”)?)
    • → Latvian: mãnît (“to blindfold, mislead, deceive”) (possible reborrowing)
    • → Lithuanian: mõnyti (“to practise sorcery”) (likely reborrowing)

• Proto-Indo-Iranian:
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
    • Sanskrit: मुषित (muṣita, “deceived”)