Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měxъ

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 *maišás, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós. Cognate with Lithuanian maĩšas (“bag, sack”), Latvian màiss (“bag”), Old Prussian moasis (“bellows”), Sanskrit मेष m (meṣá, “ram, sheep”), Classical Persian میش (mēš, “sheep, ewe”), Old Norse meiss m (“basket”), Old High German meisa m (“pannier”).

*mě̑xъ m^[1][2]

1. leather bag

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣхъ (měxŭ)
    • Belarusian: мех (mjex)
    • Russian: мех (mex)
    • Ukrainian: міх (mix)
  • Old Novgorodian: мѣхе (měxe)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѣхъ (měxŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱑⱈⱏ (měxŭ)

  • Bulgarian: мях (mjah), мех (meh)
  • Macedonian: мев (mev)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̑х, мије̑х

    Latin: mȇh, mijȇh

  • Slovene: mẹ̑h (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: miech
  • Old Czech: měch
    • Czech: měch
  • Polish: miech
  • Slovak: mech
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: měch

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měxь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 156