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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měriti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *mě̀ra (“measure”) + *-iti.
Verb
*mě̀riti impf[1][2]
- to measure
Inflection
Conjugation of *měriti, *měri, *měritь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *měřenьje | *měriti | *měritъ | *měrilъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *měřenъ | *měrimъ |
| Active | *měřь | *měrę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *měrixъ | *měri | *měri | *měřǫ | *měriši | *měritь |
| Dual | *měrixově | *měrista | *měriste | *měrivě | *měrita | *měrite |
| Plural | *měrixomъ | *měriste | *měrišę | *měrimъ | *měrite | *měrętь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *měřaaxъ | *měřaaše | *měřaaše | — | *měri | *měri |
| Dual | *měřaaxově | *měřaašeta | *měřaašete | *měrivě | *měrita | — |
| Plural | *měřaaxomъ | *měřaašete | *měřaaxǫ | *měrimъ | *měrite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*měrivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мѣрити (měriti)
- Belarusian: ме́раць (mjéracʹ)
- Russian: ме́рить (méritʹ)
- Ukrainian: мі́рити (míryty)
- Old East Slavic: мѣрити (měriti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: мѣрити (měriti)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱑⱃⰻⱅⰻ (měriti)
- Bulgarian: ме́ря (mérja)
- Macedonian: мери (meri)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ме̏рити
- Latin: mȅriti
- Chakavian (Vrgada): mȉriti
- Chakavian (Orbanići): mȅriti
- Slovene: mẹ́riti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: měřiti
- Czech: měřit
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): měřit
- Czech: měřit
- Polabian: merĕ
- Old Polish: mierzyć
- Polish: mierzyć
- Slovak: mieriť
- Slovincian: mjìe̯řěc
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: měrić
- Lower Sorbian: měriś
- Old Czech: měřiti
- Non-Slavic:
- → Lithuanian: miẽryti
- → Latvian: mẽrît
- → Old Prussian: ermīrit, pomīrit
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ме́рить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “ме́ра”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 524
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měriti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 18 (*matoga – *mękišьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 183
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mě̀riti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312: “v. (a) ‘measure’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “měriti”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (MP 26)”