Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/metati

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

From the same root as *mestì (“to throw, to sweep”).

Verb

*metàti impf

1. (transitive) to throw

Inflection

Conjugation of *metati, *meta, *meťetь (impf., tr., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*metanьje	*metati	*metatъ	*metalъ

	Participles
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

• *mestì (“to throw, to sweep”)
• *motàti (“to wind, to reel”)
• *sъmetati
  • *sъmetana (“cream”)
• *podъmetъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: метати (metati)
    • Belarusian: мята́цца (mjatácca)
    • Russian: мета́ть (metátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мета́ти (metáty)
  • Old Novgorodian: мета́ти (metáti)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: метати (metati)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: мя́там (mjátam) (via vṛddhi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мѐтати

    Latin script: mètati

  • Slovene: metáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: metati
    • Czech: metat
  • Polabian: micĕ
  • Old Polish: miotać
    • Polish: miotać, mietać (archaic)
  • Slovak: metať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mjetać (obsolete)
    • Lower Sorbian: mjataś

Further reading

• 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, volumes 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