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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měxъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *maišás, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós. Cognate with Lithuanian maĩšas (“bag, sack”), Latvian màiss (“bag”), Old Prussian moasis (“bellows”), Sanskrit मेष m (meṣá, “ram, sheep”), Classical Persian میش (mēš, “sheep, ewe”), Old Norse meiss m (“basket”), Old High German meisa m (“pannier”).
Noun
*mě̑xъ m[1][2]
- leather bag
Declension
Declension of *mě̑xъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *mě̑xъ | *mě̑xa | *mě̑śi |
Accusative | *mě̑xъ | *mě̑xa | *mě̑xy |
Genitive | *mě̑xa | *měxù | *mě̃xъ |
Locative | *mě̑śě | *měxù | *měśě̃xъ |
Dative | *mě̑xu | *měxomà | *měxòmъ |
Instrumental | *mě̑xъmь, *mě̑xomь* | *měxomà | *měxý |
Vocative | *měše | *mě̑xa | *mě̑śi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мѣхъ (měxŭ)
- Belarusian: мех (mjex)
- Russian: мех (mex)
- Ukrainian: міх (mix)
- Old Novgorodian: мѣхе (měxe)
- Old East Slavic: мѣхъ (měxŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: мѣхъ (měxŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱑⱈⱏ (měxŭ)
- Bulgarian: мях (mjah), мех (meh)
- Macedonian: мев (mev)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ме̑х, мије̑х
- Latin: mȇh, mijȇh
- Slovene: mẹ̑h (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: měch
- Czech: měch
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): mňech
- Czech: měch
- Kashubian: miech
- Polish: miech
- Slovak: mech
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: měch
- Old Czech: měch
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měxь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 156
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mě̑xъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309: “m. o (c) ‘bag (made from skin)’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “měxъ měxa”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (NA 96; SA 26; PR 137); c/d (RPT 98, 102) fur; sack; bellows”