Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/migati

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 *meigātei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian meicte (“to sleep”).

*migàti impf^[1][2]

1. to blink

• *měžiti (“to blink, to move”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мигати (migati)
    • Belarusian: міга́ць (mihácʹ)
    • Russian: мига́ть (migátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мига́ти (myháty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ми́гам (mígam)
  • Macedonian: мига (miga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми̏гати

    Latin script: mȉgati

  • Slovene: mȋgati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: míhat
  • Polabian: ḿėgojĕ
  • Old Polish: migać
    • Polish: migać
  • Slovak: migáť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: migaś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мига́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 529
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “миг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*migati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 26