Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měsiti

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *máiśīˀtei (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European *moyḱ-éye-ti (“to mix”, causative), from *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

*mě̄sìti impf^[1][2]

1. to mix
2. to knead

• *sъměsь (“mixture”)
• *měšati
  • *měšadlo
    • *měšadlъka

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣсити (měsiti) (12th-13th century), мѣситисꙗ (měsitisja) (11th century)
    • Belarusian: мясі́ць (mjasícʹ)
    • Russian: меси́ть (mesítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: міси́ти (misýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: мѣсити (měsiti)

    Glagolitic: ⰿⱑⱄⰹⱅⰹ (měsiti)

  • Bulgarian: ме́ся (mésja)
  • Macedonian: ме́си (mési)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме́сити

    Latin script: mésiti

  • Slovene: mesīti, mẹ́siti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: miesiti
    • Czech: mísit
  • Polish: miesić
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: мишиц (mišic)
    • Slovak: miesiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: měsyć
    • Lower Sorbian: měsyś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “меси́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měsiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 199