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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/město

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

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *moyth₂- (“to change place”)[1] + *-to, substantivized from an earlier adjective. Cognate[2] with Pashto مېشت (mēšt, “settled”) (< *máištah). Likely not a direct cognate, but still possibly related to Lithuanian maĩstas (“nourishment, food”).

The secondary sense “city, urban center” is a calque of Old High German stat < Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“stead, place”).

Noun

*mě̀sto n[3][4][1]

  1. (primary) place, location
  2. (secondary, in Northern Slavic) city, town, settlement

Declension
Declension of *mě̀sto (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *mě̀sto *mě̀stě *mě̀sta
genitive *mě̀sta *mě̀stu *mě̀stъ
dative *mě̀stu *mě̀stoma *mě̀stomъ
accusative *mě̀sto *mě̀stě *mě̀sta
instrumental *mě̀stъmь, *mě̀stomь* *mě̀stoma *mě̀stȳ
locative *mě̀stě *mě̀stu *mě̀stě̄xъ
vocative *mě̀sto *mě̀stě *mě̀sta
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *městiti (“to move, to change location”)
    • *poměščenьje (“room, space”)
  • *městьce, *městъko (diminutive)
  • *městina (“space”)
  • *městьnъ (“local”)
    • *městьnikъ (“local”)
    • *městьnostь (“vicinity”)
  • *městovъ (“locative”)
  • *vъměsto, *naměsto (“instead”); *vъměstě (“along with”) (adverbs)

Descendants

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́сто”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*město”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 203
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “място”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 446
  • “miestas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References
  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “mesto”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *mě̋sto”
  2. Kim, Ronald (2021) “Slavic-Iranian contacts. Linguistic relations”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online‎, Brill: “*mēsta ‘place’ (OCSl. město; Pol. miasto, Cz. město ‘city’) < OIr. *maista-”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mě̀sto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 313: “n. o (a) ‘place’”
  4. Olander, Thomas (2001) “město”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; MP 24; RPT 111)”
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