Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mey-

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

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    *mey-[1]

    1. to strengthen

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    • *moy-ni-
      • Italic:
        • Latin: moenia, mūniō (see there for further descendants)
    • *moy-ro-
      • Proto-Germanic: *mairiją (see there for further descendants)
      • Proto-Italic: *moiros (see there for further descendants)

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      *mey-[2]

      1. to bind

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      • *mi-néw-ti ~ *mi-nw-énti (new-present)
      • *mi-tró-
        • Proto-Hellenic:
        • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mitrás m (see there for further descendants)

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        *mey-[3]

        1. to change
        2. to exchange
        3. to change places → to go past

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        • *h₂meygʷ- (possibly)
        • *méy-e-tor
          • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *máyatay
            • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *máyatay
        • *mi-s-dʰ(h₁)-ó-s
        • *mey-eh₂-yeti
        • *meyḱ-, *meyǵ- (possibly)
        • *m(e)y-t-s
        • *mi-t-eh₂
        • *moy-teh₂
          • Proto-Italic: *moitā
            • Latin: mūtō (see there for further descendants)
        • *meyth₂-
        • *mi-néh₁-ti
        • *mey-n-eh₂-
          • Celtic:
            • Old Irish: mían (desire, inclination)
        • *moy-n-eh₂
        • *moy-n-éye-ti- (causative suffix)
        • *moy-no-s
        • *moy-nos ~ *moy-nes-os
          • Proto-Italic: *moinos (see there for further descendants)
        • *moy-ni-
          • Proto-Celtic: *moinis (treasure, precious object) (see there for further descendants)
          • Proto-Germanic: *mainiz (common) (see there for further descendants)
          • Proto-Italic: *moinis
            • Latin: mūnis (ready to be of service), mūnia (duties, functions)
        • *ḱom-moy-ni-
          • Proto-Germanic: *gamainiz (shared, ordinary) (see there for further descendants)
          • Proto-Italic: *kommoinis (see there for further descendants)
        • *n̥-moy-ni-
          • Proto-Italic: *enmoinis
            • Latin: immūnis (exempt from taxes or public service) (see there for further descendants)
        • Unsorted formations:
          • Balto-Slavic:
            • Latgalian: meitʹ (to exchange)
            • Latgalian: meja (change)
            • Lithuanian: mît (to exchange)
            • Proto-Slavic: *mimo (see there for further descendants)
            • Proto-Slavic: *mito (turn, twist, arc)
            • Proto-Slavic: *minǫti (to pass) (see there for further descendants)
              • Proto-Slavic: *mitě (in turn, following, alternately) (see there for further descendants)
          • Celtic:
            • Middle Welsh: tremyn (to go past)

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          *mey-[4][5]

          1. small, little

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          References

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          1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 709
          2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710
          3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710
          4. ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “minder”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
          5. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 711
          6. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
          7. 7.0 7.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “minor, -or, -us”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 381–382
          8. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[3], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 139
          9. ^ Calin, Didier (2017) “to lessen”, in Dictionary of Indo-European Poetic and Religious Themes (Linguistique; 3), Les Cent Chemins, →ISBN, page 135:*minéuti