Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mětiti

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.

By surface analysis, *mětь, *měta (“mark, note”) +‎ *-iti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measure”), from *meh₁-. Akin to Latin mētior (“to measure”), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “counsel, plan”), Sanskrit माति (māti, “measure”).

*mětiti

1. to measure
2. to mark, to notice

• *mětъka (resultant noun)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣтити (mětiti)
    • Belarusian: ме́цiць (mjécicʹ)
    • Russian: ме́тить (métitʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мі́тити (mítyty)
• South Slavic
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: смятам (smjatam)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: приме́тити, примије́тити

    ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: primétiti, primijétiti

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: mětit
  • Polish: miecić

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́тить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mětiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 222