Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďu

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

Fossilized from the locative dual of *meďa (“border; boundary”); literally, "in the (two) borders".

Preposition

*meďu

(with instrumental) between, among

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: памі́ж (pamíž)
- Russian: меж (mež)
- Ukrainian: між (miž)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: междоу (meždu), междю (meždju)
  - → Russian: ме́жду (méždu)
- Bulgarian: ме́жду (méždu)
- Macedonian: меѓу (meǵu)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ме̏ђу
  
  Latin: mȅđu
- Slovene: med (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: mezi
- Old Polish: miedzy
  - Polish: między
  - Silesian: miyndzy
- Slovak: medzi
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mjazy
  - Upper Sorbian: mjez, mjezy

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