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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/myti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mautei, from Proto-Indo-European *muH- (<*miuH-) 'wet, damp, to wash' [Pokorny 741-743]. Derksen, 2008. Cognate with Lithuanian maudyti, Latvian maut.
Verb
*mỳti impf[1][2]
- to wash
Conjugation
Conjugation of *myti, *my, *myjetь (impf., -V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *mytьje | *myti | *mytъ | *mylъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *mytъ | *myjemъ |
| Active | *myvъ | *myję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *myxъ | *my | *my | *myjǫ | *myješi | *myjetь |
| Dual | *myxově | *mysta | *myste | *myjevě | *myjeta | *myjete |
| Plural | *myxomъ | *myste | *myšę | *myjemъ | *myjete | *myjǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *myjaaxъ | *myjaaše | *myjaaše | — | *myji | *myji |
| Dual | *myjaaxově | *myjaašeta | *myjaašete | *myjivě | *myjita | — |
| Plural | *myjaaxomъ | *myjaašete | *myjaaxǫ | *myjimъ | *myjite | — |
Derived terms
- *mydlo n (“soap”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мꙑти (myti)
- Belarusian: мыць (mycʹ)
- Russian: мыть (mytʹ)
- Rusyn: мыти (mŷty)
- Ukrainian: ми́ти (mýty)
- Old East Slavic: мꙑти (myti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: мꙑти (myti)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰹⱅⰻ (myti)
- Bulgarian: ми́я (míja)
- Macedonian: мие (mie)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ми̏ти
- Latin: mȉti
- Slovene: míti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mýti
- Czech: mýt
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): myjt
- Czech: mýt
- Kashubian: mëc
- Polish: myć
- Slovak: mуť
- Slovincian: mȧ̃c
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: myć
- Lower Sorbian: myś
- Old Czech: mýti
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mỳti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338: “v. (a) ‘wash’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “myti: myjǫ myjetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 204, 212f., 246; PR 133; MP 23, 27)”