Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mitě

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

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Etymology

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Probably fossilized locative case of *mito (turn, twist, arc) +‎ *-ě, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (to exchange).

Adverb

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*mitě

  1. in turn, following
  2. alternately
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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: митѣ (mitě)
    • Bulgarian: ми́те (míte) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ми́ће (dialectal)
      Latin script: míće (dialectal)

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mitě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мит³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 131