Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mijati

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (to change place) + *-ati. Cognate with Latin meō (to pass, to traverse).

Verb

*mijati impf (perfective *minǫti)[1]

  1. to pass, to go past (transitive); to elapse (intransitive)
  2. (reflexive) (+ *sę) to pass by each other
    Synonym: *orzminovati sę

Alternative forms

Conjugation

Lechitic, Slovak:

Czech:

  • *mimo (past, by) (adverb)

Derived terms

  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: míjěti
    • Polish: mijać
    • Slovincian: mjijac
    • Slovak: míjať sa (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mijati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 31

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mijati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317:v. ‘pass’