Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měxyrь

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

Alternative forms

• *měxorь, *měxurь

Etymology

*měxъ (“a skin, a bag”) +‎ *-yrь (agentive suffix)

Noun

*měxyrь m

1. anything blown up in shape, bladder, blob
   1. blister on the skin
   2. urinary bladder
   3. nest of caterpillars and the like
   4. small pouch, sachet

   Synonym: *pǫxyrь, *pǫxorь

Inflection

Declension of *měxyrь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*měxyrь	*měxyri	*měxyrьje, *měxyře*
genitive	*měxyri	*měxyrьju, *měxyřu*	*měxyrьjь, *měxyri*
dative	*měxyri	*měxyrьma	*měxyrьmъ
accusative	*měxyrь	*měxyri	*měxyri
instrumental	*měxyrьmь	*měxyrьma	*měxyrьmi
locative	*měxyri	*měxyrьju, *měxyřu*	*měxyrьxъ
vocative	*měxyri	*měxyri	*měxyrьje, *měxyře*

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣхирь (měxirĭ), мѣхиръ (měxirŭ)
    • Russian: михи́рь (mixírʹ) (obsolete, regional)
    • Ukrainian: міху́р (mixúr), міхи́р (mixýr)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: мѣхꙑръ (měxyrŭ)
  • Bulgarian: меху́р (mehúr)
  • Macedonian: меур (meur)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мје̏хӯр, ме̏хӯр, мјѐхӣр, мѐхӣр, мјеир, ме̏јир

    Latin script: mjȅhūr, mȅhūr, mjȅhīr, mȅhīr, mjeir, mȅjir

  • Slovene: mẹhúr, mẹhír, mẹhér
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: měchýř
    • Czech: měchýř
  • Old Polish: męchyrz
    • Polish: mecherz, mechierz, męcherz, męchierz, męchyrz, miechierz, miecherz, miechór (obsolete)
    • → Belarusian: міхіе́р (mixijér)
  • Slovak: mechúr

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “меху̀р”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 774
• Kiparsky, Valentin (1975) Russische historische Grammatik. Band III: Entwicklung des Wortschatzes (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 276–277
• Ligorio, Orsat, Kapović, Ligorio (2011) “O naglasku dvosložnih o-osnova u Dubrovniku”, in Croatica et Slavica Iadertina‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7/2 No. 7, pages 346–347, here they assume the accentuation *měxỹřь pattern b and *mě̂xūrь pattern c.
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “міху́р”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měxyrʼь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 159
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měxorʼь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 150
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “михирь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress