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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₁-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-
 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

Root

*meh₁-[1][2][3]

  1. to measure

Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁-‎ (30 c, 0 e)
  • *mi-méh₁-ti ~ *mi-mh₁-énti (reduplicated present)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mimáHti ~ *mimHati
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mimáHti ~ *mimHati
      • Proto-Iranian: *mimáHtī
        • ⇒ Old Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬨𐬍𐬨𐬀𐬚𐬁 (framīmaθā, 2pl. ind./subj.)
  • *meh₁-lo- (“measurement, time”)
    • Proto-Germanic: *mēlą (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Italic:
  • *mḗh₁-n̥-s[4] (perhaps)
  • *meh₁-on- ~ *meh₁-en-[5]
    • Proto-Anatolian: *mǣ́(y)an-
      • Hittite: [script needed] (mē(i̯)an-, “‘range (of a year), extent”)
  • *méh₁-ōs (s-stem noun) or *móh₁-s (root noun)[6]
    • >? Proto-Italic: *mōs
      • Latin: mōs (“manner, quality, custom, usage”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *meh₁-reh₂
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *mḗˀrāˀ
      • Proto-Slavic: *měra (see there for further descendants)
  • *méh₁-teh₂
    • Proto-Italic: *mētā
      • Latin: mēta (see there for further descendants)
  • *méh₁-ti-s (“measurement”)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mā́tiš
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mā́tiṣ
    • Proto-Albanian: *māti[7]
    • Proto-Germanic: *mēþiz (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *mḗtis
      • Ancient Greek: μῆτις (mêtis) (Aeolic, possibly Doric)
    • Proto-Italic: *mētis
      • ⇒ Latin: mētior[3] (denominative) (see there for further descendants)
  • *méh₁-tro-m
  • *m̥h₁-n̥t-ih₂
  • *mh₁-t-yé-ti
  • *moh₁-ro-s
    • Proto-Celtic: *māros (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *mōrós
      • Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros)
  • *móh₁-yo-s
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Proto-Anatolian:
      • >? Hittite: 𒍖𒈨𒄯 (meḫur, “time”)
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
      • Old Lithuanian: mestas (“measure, limit”)
        • Lithuanian: mãtas (“measure, index; size, quantity”), mẽtas (“time, period; measure, size, quantity”)
      • Latvian: mȩts (“time, period”)
      • Old Prussian: mattei (“measure”), mettan (“year”), metthe, mette
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
        • Sanskrit: असमाति (asamāti)

See also

Further reading
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*meh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 424
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mētior, -īrī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377
  4. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mēnsis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 373
  5. Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “mē(i̯)an-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 569–571
  6. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōs, mōris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
  7. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.
  8. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 246–7.
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