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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mḗms

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

From *mems- (“flesh, meat”) +‎ *-s (root nominal suffix).

Noun

*mḗms n[1][2]

  1. flesh, meat

Inflection
Athematic, acrostatic
singular
nominative *mḗms
genitive *mémsos
singular dual plural
nominative *mḗms — —
vocative *mḗms — —
accusative *mḗms — —
genitive *mémsos — —
ablative *mémsos — —
dative *mémsey — —
locative *méms, *mémsi — —
instrumental *mémsh₁ — —

Descendants
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *mḗns
    • East Baltic:
      • Latgalian: mīsa
      • Latvian: mìesa
      • Lithuanian: mėsà
      • Samogitian: męsà
    • West Baltic:
      • Old Prussian: menso, mensā
    • Proto-Slavic: *mę̑so (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mā́ms

Derived terms
  • *mēms-eh₂[3] (or perhaps from collective *mēms-eh₁)
  • *mēms-ó-m[1][4]
    • Proto-Albanian: *meša (< earlier *mēNśa-)[3]
    • Armenian:
    • Proto-Germanic: *mimzą[4] (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *māmsám (see there for further descendants)
  • *mḗms-ro-m[1][5]
    • Proto-Celtic: *mīðrom[6]
    • Proto-Hellenic: *mḗron (possibly)
    • Proto-Italic: *memzrom[7]
      • Latin: membrum (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic:

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “mēmso-t mē(m)s-ro-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 725
  2. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  3. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 55
  4. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mimza-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369
  5. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 272
  6. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*mē(m)s-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 486ff
  7. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “membrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370
  8. Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 316
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