Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₁-

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₁-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Root

*meh₁-[1][2][3]

1. to measure

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁-

• *mi-méh₁-ti ~ *mi-mh₁-énti (reduplicated present)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mimáHti ~ *mimHati
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mimáHti ~ *mimHati
      • Sanskrit: मिमाति (mímāti)
      • Sanskrit: मिमीते (mímīte)
    • Proto-Iranian: *mimáHtī
      • ⇒ Old Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬨𐬍𐬨𐬀𐬚𐬁‎ (framīmaθā, 2pl. ind./subj.)
• *meh₁-lo- (“measurement, time”)
  • Proto-Germanic: *mēlą (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic:
    • Latin: (se)mel
• *mḗh₁-n̥-s[4] (perhaps)
• *meh₁-on- ~ *meh₁-en-[5]
  • Proto-Anatolian: *mǣ́(y)an-
    • Hittite: [script needed] (mē(i̯)an-, “‘range (of a year), extent”)
• *méh₁-ōs (s-stem noun) or *móh₁-s (root noun)[6]
  • >? Proto-Italic: *mōs
    • Latin: mōs (“manner, quality, custom, usage”) (see there for further descendants)
• *meh₁-reh₂
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *mḗˀrāˀ
    • Proto-Slavic: *měra (see there for further descendants)
• *méh₁-teh₂
  • Proto-Italic: *mētā
    • Latin: mēta (see there for further descendants)
• *méh₁-ti-s (“measurement”)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mā́tiš
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mā́tiṣ
      • Sanskrit: माति (māti)
  • Proto-Albanian: *māti[7]
    • Albanian: mot
  • Proto-Germanic: *mēþiz (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *mḗtis
    • Ancient Greek: μῆτις (mêtis) (Aeolic, possibly Doric)
  • Proto-Italic: *mētis
    • ⇒ Latin: mētior[3] (denominative) (see there for further descendants)
• *méh₁-tro-m
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mā́tram
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mā́tram
      • Sanskrit: मात्र (mātra, from the collective)
        • → Hindi: मात्र (mātra)
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: μέτρον (métron) (see there for further descendants)
• *m̥h₁-n̥t-ih₂
  • Proto-Celtic: *mantī
    • Proto-Brythonic: *mėnt
      • Breton: ment
      • Cornish: myns
      • Welsh: maint
    • Old Irish: méit
      • Irish: méid, méad
      • Scottish Gaelic: meud
    • Gaulish: *mantī
      • → Old French: maint
        • Middle French: maint
          • French: maint (archaic)
• *mh₁-t-yé-ti
  • Proto-Albanian: *matja[8]
    • Albanian: mat (Gheg)
    • Albanian: mas (Tosk)
• *moh₁-ro-s
  • Proto-Celtic: *māros (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *mōrós
    • Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros)
• *móh₁-yo-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
      • Sanskrit: मेय (méya)
        • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀫𑁂𑀅 (mea), 𑀫𑁂𑀚𑁆𑀚 (mejja)
          • Marathi: मेज (mej)
            • ⇒ Marathi: मेजणे (mejṇe)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Anatolian:
    • >? Hittite: 𒍖𒈨𒄯 (meḫur, “time”)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Old Lithuanian: mestas (“measure, limit”)
      • Lithuanian: mãtas (“measure, index; size, quantity”), mẽtas (“time, period; measure, size, quantity”)
    • Latvian: mȩts (“time, period”)
    • Old Prussian: mattei (“measure”), mettan (“year”), metthe, mette
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
      • Sanskrit: असमाति (asamāti)

See also

• *med-

Further reading

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

References

1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*meh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 424
2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mētior, -īrī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377
4. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mēnsis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 373
5. Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008), “mē(i̯)an-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 569–571
6. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mōs, mōris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
7. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.
8. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 246–7.