Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/míglāˀ

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃mígʰleh₂ (“mist, cloud”).

Reconstruction

R. Derksen reconstructs the stress on the ending in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform, apparently completely ignoring Dybo's law in the Proto-Slavic language, and de Saussure's law in the Lithuanian language, in order to break open the Illich-Svitych' system. It also ignores the typical comparison of the Lithuanian 2 (> 4) stress pattern with the Proto-Slavic accent paradigm b. Perhaps, this was done in order to fit and reconstruct the ending stress in the Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰléh₂ as required by mainstream Indo-European theory.

However, this reconstruction of the stress is contradicted by the Ancient Greek stress in the wordform ὀμίχλη (omíkhlē). Also, if you don't ignore the above accentological laws, then in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform, the stress is reconstructed at the root. This corresponds to the Ancient Greek stress. To compare with *wáljāˀ.

Noun

*míglāˀ f

fog, mist

Inflection

Declension of *míglāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*míglāˀ	*míglāiˀ	*míglās
Accusative	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾n	*míglāiˀ	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾s	*míglāu⁽ˀ⁾	*míglōn
Locative	*míglāiˀ	*míglāu⁽ˀ⁾	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾su
Dative	*míglāi	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mā⁽ˀ⁾	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mas
Instrumental	*míglāˀn	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾māˀ	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mīˀs
Vocative	*mígla	*míglāiˀ	*míglās

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: migla
- Lithuanian: miglà
Proto-Slavic: *mьglà (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьglà; *mьgà; *miglъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 338: “*migláH”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “migla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*migláʔ”
^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎ (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences
^ Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎ (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40
^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 52-54: “Dybo's law”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьglà; *mьgà; *miglъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 338: “*migláH”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “migla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*migláʔ”

[3] Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎ (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences

[4] Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎ (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40

[5] Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 52-54: “Dybo's law”

Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/míglāˀ

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