Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motati

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 edit

Etymology edit

See *mestì (to throw, to sweep) for etymology.

Verb edit

*motàti impf[1]

  1. to wind

Inflection edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мота́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 544
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “?2. *met-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 442
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*motati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 44

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*motàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 327:v. ‘wind’