Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mḗms

This Proto-Indo-European 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

From *mems- (“flesh, meat”) +‎ *-s (root nominal suffix).

Noun

*mḗms n^[1]^[2]

flesh, meat

Inflection

Athematic, acrostatic
	singular
nominative	*mḗms
genitive	*mémsos
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mḗms	—	—
vocative	*mḗms	—	—
accusative	*mḗms	—	—
genitive	*mémsos	—	—
ablative	*mémsos	—	—
dative	*mémsey	—	—
locative	méms, mémsi	—	—
instrumental	*mémsh₁	—	—

Descendants

Proto-Balto-Slavic: *mḗns
- East Baltic:
  - Latgalian: mīsa
  - Latvian: mìesa
  - Lithuanian: mėsà
  - Samogitian: męsà
- West Baltic:
  - Old Prussian: menso, mensā
- Proto-Slavic: *mę̑so (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mā́ms
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mā́ms
  - Vedic Sanskrit: मांस् (māṃs), मास् (mās)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mḗms

*mēms-eh₂^[3] (or perhaps from collective *mēms-eh₁)
- Tocharian B: misa
*mēms-ó-m^[1]^[4]
- Proto-Albanian: *meša (< earlier *mēNśa-)^[3]
  - Albanian: mish
- Armenian:
  - Old Armenian: միս (mis)
- Proto-Germanic: *mimzą^[4] (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *māmsám (see there for further descendants)
*mḗms-ro-m^[1]^[5]
- Proto-Celtic: *mīðrom^[6]
  - Old Irish: mír
    - Irish: mír
    - Scottish Gaelic: mìr
- Proto-Hellenic: *mḗron (possibly)
  - Ancient Greek: μῆρα (mêra), μηρός (mērós)
- Proto-Italic: *memzrom^[7]
  - Latin: membrum (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *mēmstra
  - Proto-Slavic: *męzdro, *męzdra^[8]^[9] (see there for further descendants)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Pokorny, Julius (1959) “mēmso-t mē(m)s-ro-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 725
^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 55
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mimza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 272
^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*mē(m)s-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 486ff
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “membrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męzdra/*męzdro”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 22
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316

[Pokorny-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Pokorny, Julius (1959) “mēmso-t mē(m)s-ro-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 725

[2] Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[Demiraj-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 55

[EDPG-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mimza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369

[EDPC-5] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 272

[6] Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*mē(m)s-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 486ff

[EDL-7] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “membrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370

[8] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męzdra/*męzdro”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 22

[9] Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316

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