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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mělъkъ

This Proto-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-Slavic

Etymology

Perhaps a conflation of:

Adjective

*mě̑lъkъ or *mě̋lъkъ[1][2]

  1. small, little
    Synonyms: *malъ, *drebьnъ, *mězinъ
  2. shallow
    Synonym: *plytъkъ
  3. narrow
    Synonyms: *ǫzъkъ, *těsnъ

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *mělъkъ m, *mělъka f (small creature)
  • *mělъčь m, *mělъča f (small place, part)
  • *mělъkota, *mělъkostь (smallness)
  • *mělъčiti, *mělъčati (to shrink, to grind)
    • *mělъčьnъ (shrunken, tiny)
  • *malъ, *malъkъ (small)
  • *mělьnъ (granular)
  • *mělьca f (granular soil), *mělьce n (place where the ground is granular)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мѣлъкъ (mělŭkŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: мѣлъкъ (mělŭkŭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ме̏ок, миоки (dated)
      Latin script: mȅok (dated)
    • Slovene: mę́łək (tonal orthography) (dated)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: mělký
    • Kashubian: miałczi
    • Old Polish: miałki
    • Slovak: melký
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: mjałki, měłki
      • Upper Sorbian: miłki

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́лкий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mělъkъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 169

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mělъ; *mělъkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 310
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “milka”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:pslovan. *mě̑lъkъ, *mě̋lъkъ
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