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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/metъla

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *metla (per Vaillant)
  • *metьla (per Bernecker, Vasmer, Georgiev, Mladenov)

Etymology

From *mesti (to throw, to toss away) + *-ъla.

Reconstructed with -ъl- on basis of Polish miotełka (diminutive), as per Skok, Sławski. Alternatively, with suffix -ьl- on basis of Russian метёлка (metjólka) (diminutive). Trubachev tends towards -ъl- based on the possible borrowings Romanian mătură (broom), Aromanian meturã (broom), Albanian netullë (broom).

Noun

*metъlà f[1]

  1. broom, besom
  2. grass plant used for making brooms

Alternative forms

  • *metъlo n

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *metъlъka (diminutive)
  • *metъlica, *metъličina (windgrass (Apera))
  • *metъlikъ, *metъliga (meadow-grass (Роа))
  • *metъlařь (broom-maker)
  • *mesti (to throw)
  • *metati (to toss, to throw)
  • *motati (to reel)
  • *metъka (sweeper)
  • *metyľь (parasite affecting the guts) (possibly)
  • *motyľь (moth) (possibly)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: метла (metla)[2]
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: metla
    • Polabian: metlă
    • Polish: miotła; miotło n (dialectal)
    • Slovak: metla
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: mjetla (wand) (with -l- spread from mjetlica), mjetło n
      • Lower Sorbian: mjetła

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “метла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*metъla/*metъlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “метла”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 769

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “metla”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *metъla̋
  2. Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “метла”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 130
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