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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mertéi

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Verb

*mertéi[1][2][3]

  1. to die

Inflection

Mobile accent, j-present *mirjetí.

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: miert
    • Latvian: mìrt
    • Lithuanian: mir̃ti
  • Proto-Slavic: *mertì (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*merti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 308: “*mer-; *mir-”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “mirti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321: “*mer-; *mir-”
  3. Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197: “Another [inherited case with phonologically regular mobility] is *mь̏r(j)ǫ, *mьr(j)etь̍ ‘die’”
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