Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mitě

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

Probably fossilized locative case of *mito (“turn, twist, arc”) +‎ *-ě, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

Adverb

*mitě

  1. in turn, following
  2. alternately
  • *mimo, *mivo (“by, past”)
  • *mitusь (“confusion, mess”)
  • *mitъ (“turnabout”)
    • *mitati (“to roam, to wander”)
    • *mititi (“to knead, to mix”)
    • *mitorъ (“mixture”)
  • *mitva (“mix”)

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: митѣ (mitě)
    • Bulgarian: ми́те (míte) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ми́ће (dialectal)
      Latin script: míće (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mitě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мит³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 131
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