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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meyk-
See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European
Root
*meyk-
- to twinkle, blink
Descendants
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meyk-
- Proto-Celtic: *mikneti
- Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: dismegans
- Breton: dismeg
- Welsh: dirmygu, edmygu, myged
- Middle Breton: dismegans
- Old Irish: do·meiccethar
- Middle Irish: dimicnigid
- Proto-Brythonic:
- Latin: micō
- Proto-Slavic: *mikati
- Lower Sorbian: mikaś
- Upper Sorbian: mikać
- ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *mьčьtъ, *mьčьta (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*mik-n-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 271