Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/myto

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

Generally considered a borrowing from Germanic whence also Medieval Latin mūta (“toll”). Compare German Maut (“toll”)

Noun

*mytò n[1][2][3]

tax

Inflection

Declension of *mȳtò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà
Accusative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà
Genitive	*mȳtà	*mȳtù	*mỹtъ
Locative	*mȳtě̀	*mȳtù	*mỹtěxъ
Dative	*mȳtù	*mȳtòma	*mȳtòmъ
Instrumental	mȳtъ̀mь, mȳtòmь^*	*mȳtòma	*mỹty
Vocative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

Old East Slavic: мꙑто (myto)
- Belarusian: мы́та (mýta)
- Russian: мы́то (mýto) (archaic)
- Ukrainian: ми́то (mýto)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: мꙑто (myto)
  - Bulgarian: мито́ (mitó)
- Macedonian: мито (mito, “bribe”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ми́то (“bribe”)
  Latin: míto (“bribe”)
- Slovene: míto (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: mýto
- Kashubian: mito
- Polabian: moitĕ
- Polish: myto
- Slovak: mýto
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: myto
  - Upper Sorbian: myto

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*myto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338: “n. o ‘toll, fee’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “myto”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b afgift, told (PR 135)”
Snoj, Marko (2016), “mitnȋna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*mytȍ”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*myto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338: “n. o ‘toll, fee’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “myto”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b afgift, told (PR 135)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016), “mitnȋna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*mytȍ”