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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃meygʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

Often confounded with *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to make water”).

Root

*h₃meygʰ-

  1. fog, mist, cloud
  2. to drizzle

Derived terms
  • *h₃migʰ-néh₂-ti
    • Germanic: *miggо̄ną[1]
      • Dutch: miggelen
  • *h₃migʰ-leh₂
  • *h₃moygʰ-ó-s
  • *h₃migʰ-so-m
    • Germanic: *mihsą
      • Middle Dutch: mes
      • Old English: meox
  • *h₃migʰstos
    • Germanic: *mihstaz (see there for further descendants)
  • *h₃mígʰ-s
    • Indo-Iranian: *Hmíkš
      • Indo-Aryan: *Hmíkṣ
        • Sanskrit: मिहम् f (míham, acc.sg.) (√ मिह् (mih))
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Old Armenian: մէգ (mēg) (or borrowed from an Iranian descendant)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “miggо̄n-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 369
  2. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “meghá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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