Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měšati

This Proto-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.

Iterative of *měsiti (“to stir, to mix”).

*měšati

1. to stir, to mix

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣшати (měšati)
    • Belarusian: мяша́ць (mjašácʹ)
    • Russian: меша́ть (mešátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мiша́ти (mišáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѣшати (měšati)

  • Bulgarian: мѐшам (mèšam)
  • Macedonian: меша (meša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме́шати, мије́шати

    Latin script: méšati, mijéšati

  • Slovene: mẹ́šati, mešáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: měšati, míšati
    • Czech: míšati (obsolete)
  • Polish: mieszać
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: мишац (mišac)
    • Slovak: miešať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: měšać
    • Lower Sorbian: měšaś

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měšati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 215
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “меша́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress