< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mitě
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably fossilized locative case of *mito (“turn, twist, arc”) + *-ě, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).
Adverb
*mitě
- in turn, following
- alternately
Related terms
- *mitъ (“turnabout”)
- *mititi (“to knead, to mix”)
- *mitati (“to roam, to wander”)
- *mitorъ (“mixture”)
- *mitva (“mix”)
- *mitusь (“confusion, mess”)
- *mimo, *mivo (“along”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: митѣ (mitě)
- Bulgarian: ми́те (míte) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми́ће (dialectal)
- Latin: míće (dialectal)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mitě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59
- Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “мит³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 131