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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mélˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind”). Cognates include Lithuanian málti, German mahlen, Latin molō, Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē), Sanskrit मृणाति (mṛṇā́ti) and Hittite [script needed] (malla-i).
Verb
*mèlti impf[1][2][3]
- to grind, mill
Conjugation
Conjugation of *melti, *mel, *meľetь (impf., -C/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *meltьje | *melti | *meltъ | *mellъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *meltъ | *meľemъ |
| Active | *melvъ | *meľę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *melsъ | *mel | *mel | *meľǫ | *meľeši | *meľetь |
| Dual | *melsově | *melsta | *melste | *meľevě | *meľeta | *meľete |
| Plural | *melsomъ | *melste | *melsę | *meľemъ | *meľete | *meľǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *meľaaxъ | *meľaaše | *meľaaše | — | *meľi | *meľi |
| Dual | *meľaaxově | *meľaašeta | *meľaašete | *meľivě | *meľita | — |
| Plural | *meľaaxomъ | *meľaašete | *meľaaxǫ | *meľimъ | *meľite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*meljenъ is doublet of past passive participle
See also
- *moltъ (“hammer”)
- *mělъ (“chalk”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: молоти (moloti)
- Belarusian: мало́ць (malócʹ)
- Russian: моло́ть (molótʹ)
- Ukrainian: моло́ти (molóty)
- Old East Slavic: молоти (moloti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: млѣти (mlěti)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⰾⱑⱅⰻ (mlěti)
- Bulgarian: ме́ля (mélja)
- Macedonian: меле (mele)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мле̏ти, мље̏ти
- Latin: mlȅti, mljȅti
- Slovene: mlẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mléti
- Czech: mlít
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): mlít
- Czech: mlít
- Polabian: mlåt
- Polish: mleć
- Silesian: melać
- Slovak: mlieť
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: mlěć
- Lower Sorbian: mlaś
- Old Czech: mléti
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mèlti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307: “v. (b) ‘grind, mill’”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “malti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 302: “*meltì”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “melti: meljǫ meljetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 203, 248f., 251; PR 136; ?MP 27)”