Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/míglāˀ

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃mígʰleh₂ (mist, cloud).

Reconstruction edit

R. Derksen reconstructs the stress on the ending in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform,[1][2] apparently completely ignoring Dybo's law in the Proto-Slavic language, and de Saussure's law in the Lithuanian language, in order to break open the Illich-Svitych' system.[3] It also ignores the typical comparison of the Lithuanian 2 (> 4) stress pattern with the Proto-Slavic accent paradigm b. Perhaps, this was done in order to fit and reconstruct the ending stress in the Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰléh₂ as required by mainstream Indo-European theory.

However, this reconstruction of the stress is contradicted by the Ancient Greek stress in the wordform ὀμίχλη (omíkhlē).[4] Also, if you don't ignore the above accentological laws, then in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform, the stress is reconstructed at the root.[5] This corresponds to the Ancient Greek stress. To compare with *wáljāˀ.

Noun edit

*míglāˀ f

  1. fog, mist

Inflection edit

Declension of *míglāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *míglāˀ *míglāiˀ *míglās
Accusative *míglā(ˀ)n *míglāiˀ *míglā(ˀ)ns
Genitive *míglā(ˀ)s *míglāu(ˀ) *míglōn
Locative *míglāiˀ *míglāu(ˀ) *míglā(ˀ)su
Dative *míglāi *míglā(ˀ)(ˀ) *míglā(ˀ)mas
Instrumental *míglāˀn *míglā(ˀ)māˀ *míglā(ˀ)mīˀs
Vocative *mígla *míglāiˀ *míglās

Descendants edit

  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: migla
    • Lithuanian: miglà
  • Proto-Slavic: *mьglà (see there for further descendants)

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mьglà; *mьgà; *miglъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 338: “*migláH”
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “migla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*migláʔ”
  3. ^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎[1] (in Russian), Soviet Union; Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences
  4. ^ Dybo, Vladimir A.; Zamyatina, Galina I.; Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40
  5. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 52-54: “Dybo's law”