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

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

Root

*mer-

1. to disappear
2. to deceive

Derived terms

• *mér-se-ti (“to forget”, se-present)

• *mor-ó-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *mara (“ghost, apparition”)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mārás
    • Proto-Iranian: *māráh
      • ⇒ Proto-Iranian: *uzmāráh
        • Pashto: مار (mā́r, “robber”)
        • Pashto: ازمار (azmār, “deceiver; deceiving”)
          • → Wakhi: mazāk (“deceiving”)

• Persian: [script needed] (mizāḥ, “to jest, joke”)
• Persian: [script needed] (mazzāḥ, “jester”)
• Parachi: mazâk