Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/māti
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Proto-Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measurement”), deverbative of *meh₁- (“to measure”); compare Old English mǣþ (“measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas (“time”), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “plan”). Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ influenced by Latin tempus (“time, weather”) (compare Romanian timp, French temps).
Noun
*māti
Descendants
- Albanian: mot
Related terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mot”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 274-5