Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mélˀtei
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-.
Verb
- to grind
Inflection
Fixed accent.[3]
Descendants
- Latgalian: maļt
- Latvian: mal̃t
- Lithuanian: málti
- Proto-Slavic: *mèlti (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mèlti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307: “*melʔ-”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “malti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 302: “*melʔ-; *molʔ-”
- ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197: “*meljǫ̍ ‘fight’, with immobility (also seen in the sustained tone of Latv. inf. mal̃t)”