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.

*meh₂-^[1]

2. good, great
3. timely, opportune

• *meh₂-i-
  • Anatolian:
    • Hittite: (māi-)
• *meh₂-ni-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mānis (> mānī, mānē, mānēs)
• *meh₂-nos
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mānus, immānis
• *meh₂-rós
  • Proto-Celtic: *māros (see there for further descendants)
• *moh₂-rós
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”) (ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi), σινάμωρος (sinámōros), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros))
• *meh₂-tis
  • Proto-Celtic: *matis (see there for further descendants)
• *meh₂-to-rós
  • Proto-Slavic: *matorъ (see there for further descendants)
• *meh₂-tu-rós
  • Italic:
    • Latin: mātūrus
• *meh₂-tu-to-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: Mātūta, mātūtīnus
• *méh₂-yōs ~ *méh₂-is- (comparative)
  • Proto-Celtic: *māyūs (see *māros for further descendants)
  • >? Proto-Germanic: *maizô, *maistaz
• *n̥-meh₂-u-rós
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: (perhaps) ἀμαυρός (amaurós), μαυρός (maurós) (Suggested to mean weak from not great)^[2]

*meh₂-

2. wet, damp

• *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)

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