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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melzti

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *melźtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

This Indo-European root also gave rise to the Germanic form *meluks (milk), which was possibly later borrowed into Slavic as *melko (milk). Other Indo-European cognates of the same root include Latin mulgeō, Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō), Lithuanian mélžti / mìlžti, 3sg. mélžia, Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.

Verb

*melzti impf[1][2]

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to milk

Conjugation

See also

  • *mьlgati
  • *mьlza
    • *mьlzavъ, *mьlzava
  • *mьlzakъ / *mьlzъkъ
  • *mьlzarjь
  • *mьlzica
  • *mьlzišče
  • *mьlznǫti
  • *mьlzti
    • *mьlzenьje
    • *mьlzlica
  • *mьlzъ
  • *mьlzьcь
  • *mьlzьnъ
    • *mьlzьnica
    • *mьlzьnikъ
  • *mьlža

Derived terms

  • *melza
  • *melzavъ
  • *melzivo / *melziva
  • *melzivъ
  • *melztva / *melztvъ
  • *melzьje?
  • *molzъ / *molza / *molzь
    • *molzati, *molziti
    • *molzьnъ

Descendants

  • Church Slavonic: млѣсти (mlěsti), мельзити (melĭziti) (Russian)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: мълзя (mǎlzja) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: му̏сти
      Latin script: mȕsti
    • Slovene: mlẹ́sti, mólsti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*melzti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 95

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*melzti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 307:v. ‘milk’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “melzti: mьlzǫ mьlzetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c (SA 208, 255)
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