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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/metati

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 the same root as *mestì (“to throw, to sweep”).

Verb

*metàti impf[1][2]

  1. (transitive) to throw

Inflection
Conjugation of *metati, *meta, *meťetь (impf., tr., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*metanьje *metati *metatъ *metalъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *metanъ *meťemъ
Active *metavъ *meťę
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *metaxъ*meta*meta *meťǫ*meťeši*meťetь
Dual *metaxově*metasta*metaste *meťevě*meťeta*meťete
Plural *metaxomъ*metaste*metašę *meťemъ*meťete*meťǫtь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *metaaxъ*metaaše*metaaše —*meťi*meťi
Dual *metaaxově*metaašeta*metaašete *meťivě*meťita—
Plural *metaaxomъ*metaašete*metaaxǫ *meťimъ*meťite—

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: метати (metati)
    • Old Novgorodian: мета́ти (metáti)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: metati
    • Polabian: micĕ
    • Old Polish: miotać
    • Slovak: metať
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: mjetać (obsolete)
      • Lower Sorbian: mjataś

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мечу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мета́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 527
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*metati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 112

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*metàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 309: “v. (b) ‘throw’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “metati: metjǫ metjetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b kaste (SA 210; PT 136)”
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