User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂y-

This 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 edit

Etymology edit

Possibly reanalyzed from *méh₂-ye-ti, from *meh₂- (to beckon) +‎ *-yeti.[1][2]

Alternative reconstructions edit

Root edit

*meh₂y-[1]

  1. to deceive, hurt

Derived terms edit

  • *méh₂i-se-ti (se-present)[2]
    • Proto-Italic: *maiseō[2]
      • Latin: maereō (to be sad, mourn)
  • *mih₂-mó-s
  • *mh₂i-s-o-s
Unsorted formations
  • Proto-Slavic: *mȃmъ (deceit)
    • Czech: mam (deceit, error, (dial.) apparition, ghost)
    • Serbo-Croatian: mȃm (lure, bait, temptation, charm, frenzy)
    • Old Church Slavonic: mamъ (mamŭ, foolish)
    • Slovak: mam (deceit, mirage)
    • Proto-Slavic: *mamiti (to deceive) (merger with *manǫti (to beckon)?)
      • Latvian: mãnît (to blindfold, mislead, deceive) (possible reborrowing)
      • Lithuanian: mõnyti (to practise sorcery) (likely reborrowing)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pokorny, Julius (1959), “1. mā-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 693
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “358”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page maereō
  3. 3.0 3.1 Pokorny, Julius (1959), “2. mei-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 710
  4. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “māyā-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 349-350
  5. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “mení-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 379