Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*meh₂-

2. good, great
3. timely, opportune

Derived terms

• *méh₂-yos- ~ *méh₂-is- (comparative)
  • Proto-Celtic: *māyos
    • Welsh: mwy (“more”)
  • Germanic: (possibly) *maizô (“more”), *maistaz (“most”)
• *meh₂-i-
  • Anatolian:
    • Hittite: (māi-)
• *meh₂-nos
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mānus, immānis
• *meh₂-ni-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mānis (> mānī, mānē, mānēs)
• *meh₂-tis
  • Proto-Celtic: *matis
• *meh₂-tu-rós
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mātūrus
• *meh₂-to-rós
  • Proto-Slavic: *matorъ
    • Russian: матёрый (matjóryj)
    • Serbo-Croatian: mator, матор
• *meh₂-tu-to-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: Mātūta, mātūtīnus,
• *meh₂-rós
  • Proto-Celtic: *māros
• *moh₂-rós
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”) (ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi), σινάμωρος (sinámōros), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros))
• *n̥-meh₂-u-rós
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: (perhaps) ἀμαυρός (amaurós), μαυρός (maurós) (Suggested to mean weak from not great)

Root

*meh₂-

2. wet, damp

Derived terms

• *meh₂-no-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mānō
• *meh₂-ni-
  • Proto-Celtic: *mānis
    • Proto-Brythonic: *mọn
      • Breton: man
      • Welsh: mawn
    • Old Irish: móin (“peat, moss”)
      • Irish: móin
      • Manx: moain
      • Scottish Gaelic: mòine
• *meh₂-ro-
  • Proto-Germanic: *mōraz (see there for further descendants)

References

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 699, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 699 of 699, 700