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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mḗms

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

From *mems- +‎ *-s.

Noun

*mḗms n [1][2]

  1. flesh, meat

Inflection
Athematic, acrostatic
singular
nominative *mḗms
genitive *mémsos
singular dual plural
nominative *mḗms — —
vocative *mḗms — —
accusative *mḗms — —
genitive *mémsos — —
ablative *mémsos — —
dative *mémsey — —
locative *méms, *mémsi — —
instrumental *mémsh₁ — —

Descendants
  • Indo-Iranian: *mā́ms
    • Indo-Aryan: *mā́ms
      • Vedic Sanskrit: मास् (mā́s), मांस् (mā́ṃs)

Derived terms
  • *mēms-eh₂[3][4] (or perhaps from collective *mēms-eh₁)
  • *mēms-ó-m[1][5]
    • Albanian: *meša (< earlier *mēNśa-)[4]
    • Armenian:
    • Balto-Slavic: *mensa
      • Slavic: *mę̂so[3] (see there for further descendants)
    • Germanic: *mimzą[5] (see there for further descendants)
    • Indo-Iranian: *māmsám (see there for further descendants)
  • *mḗms-ro-m[1][6]
    • Celtic: *mīros
    • Italic: *memzrom[6]
      • Latin: membrum (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “mēmso-t mē(m)s-ro-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 725
  2. Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015), “mėsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 312-313
  4. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 55
  5. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “*mimza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 369
  6. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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