Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъčati

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 *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *mukyéti, from the root *(s)mewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian mùkti (“to flit, to come off, to stick”) (1sg. munkù), Latvian mukt (“to flee, to come off”), Lithuanian maũkti (“to tighten, to sip (wine)”) (1sg. maukiù), Sanskrit मुच्यते (múcyate, “to be released”), मुञ्चति (muñcáti, “to liberate, to save”), Ancient Greek ἀπο-μύσσω (apo-mússō, “to snort, to cheat”), possibly Latin ē-mungō (“to blow one's nose, to cheat”) (infinitive ēmungere).

*mъčati impf

1. to rush? to throw? to carry?

• *mъknǫti (“to move”)
• *sъmykati

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *мъчати (*mŭčati)
    • ⇒ Belarusian: імча́ць (imčácʹ)
    • Russian: мчать (mčatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мча́ти (mčáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: мьчими (mĭčimi, nom. pl. pres. pass. part.)

    Glagolitic:

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: (до̀мчати)

    Latin: (dòmčati)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mčieti
    • Czech: mčet (archaic or dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мчать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*meu̯k-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 443–444
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъčati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 203