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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mesti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *met-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian mèsti (“to throw”) (1sg. metù, 3sg. mẽta), Latvian mest (“to throw”) (3sg. mȩt), Old Prussian pomests (“submissive”, perf. pass. part.), pomettīwingi (“obedient”, masc. nom. pl.). Also cognate with Lithuanian métyti (“to throw”) (1sg. métau), Latvian mẽtât. Per Derksen, possibly related to Latin metō (“to mow, to harvest”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), although many sources indicate no cognates outside of Balto-Slavic.
Inflection
Conjugation of *mesti (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
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*metenьje | *mesti | *mestъ | *metlъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *metenъ | *metomъ |
Active | *metъ | *mety |
Aorist | Present | |||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *met(ox)ъ | *mete | *mete | *metǫ | *meteši | *metetь |
Dual | *met(ox)ově | *met(e/os)ta | *met(e/os)te | *metevě | *meteta | *metete |
Plural | *met(ox)omъ | *met(e/os)te | *metǫ, *metošę | *metemъ | *metete | *metǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *metěaxъ | *metěaše | *metěaše | — | *meti | *meti |
Dual | *metěaxově | *metěašeta | *metěašete | *metěvě | *metěta | — |
Plural | *metěaxomъ | *metěašete | *metěaxǫ | *metěmъ | *metěte | — |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “мету́”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “мести́”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 525
- Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mesti (sę)”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 18, Moscow: Nauka, page 105
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mestì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308: “v. (c) ‘throw, sweep’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “mesti: metǫ metetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c feje (PR 139)”
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