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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďa
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This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic
Etymology
Derksen: from Proto-Balto-Slavic *medjo, *medjāʔ, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰieh₂.
ЭССЯ: from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyā.
(Author?): from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian mẽdis (“tree”), mẽdžias (“forest”), mẽdė (“forest”), Latvian mеžs (“forest”), Old Prussian median (“forest”).
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya, “middle, located in the middle”), Latin medius (“middle”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis, “middle”), Ancient Greek μέσσος (méssos), μέσος (mésos, “middle of, between, amidst”), Old Irish midе (“medium”), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior”), Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“middle, mid”).
Inflection
Declension of *meďà (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *meďà | *mèďi | *meďę̇̀ |
| Accusative | *meďǫ̀ | *mèďi | *meďę̇̀ |
| Genitive | *meďę̇̀ | *meďù | *mèďь |
| Locative | *meďì | *meďù | *meďàsъ, *meďàxъ* |
| Dative | *meďì | *meďàma | *meďàmъ |
| Instrumental | *meďèjǫ, *mèďǫ** | *meďàma | *meďàmī |
| Vocative | *meďe | *mèďi | *meďę̇̀ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
- *meďu (“between, among”)
Descendants
- East Slavic: межа (meža)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “межа”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1992), “*medja”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 18, Moscow: Nauka, page 45
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*medjà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 305: “f. jā (b) ‘border, boundary, balk’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “medja medjě”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (NA 92, 141; SA 20); b/c (PR 135) boundary”
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