Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mězga

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 Proto-Indo-European *h₃meyǵʰ-.

Noun

*mězga f

1. sap

Inflection

Declension of *mězga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mězga	*mězdzě	*mězgy
genitive	*mězgy	*mězgu	*mězgъ
dative	*mězdzě	*mězgama	*mězgamъ
accusative	*mězgǫ	*mězdzě	*mězgy
instrumental	*mězgojǫ, *mězgǫ**	*mězgama	*mězgami
locative	*mězdzě	*mězgu	*mězgasъ, *mězgaxъ*
vocative	*mězgo	*mězdzě	*mězgy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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: мѣзга (mězga)
    • Old Ruthenian: мѣзга (mězha), мезга (mezha)
      • Belarusian: мязга́ (mjazhá)
      • ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: мiзка́ (mizká)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: мiзка́ (mizká)
    • Russian: мезга́ (mezgá)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: мъзга́ (mǎzgá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме́зга

    Latin script: mézga

    • Kajkavian (Bednja): mīēzgȍ
  • Slovene: mẹ́zgа (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: miezha
    • Czech: míza
  • Old Polish: miazga
    • Polish: miazga
      • Lesser Polish (Sidzina): ḿåzga
  • Slovak: miazga
  • Slovincian: mjozga
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: měza

    Lower Sorbian: mězga

• Non-Slavic:
  • Romanian: mâzgă

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mězga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 223
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мезга́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress