Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mimo

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

Etymology

From *minǫti (“to pass”) +‎ *-mo.

Preposition

*mìmo

1. (with genitive) by, past

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мимо (mimo)
    • Old Ruthenian: ми́мо (mímo), мы́мо (mýmo)
      • Belarusian: мі́ма (míma); мі́мо (mímo) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: ми́мо (mýmo)
    • Russian: ми́мо (mímo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мимо (mimo)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⰺⰿⱁ (mimo)

  • Bulgarian: ми́мо (mímo) (obsolete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мимо, ми̏мо

    Latin script: mimo, mȉmo

  • Slovene: mȋmo, mȇmo; mȋm (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mimo, mímo
    • Czech: mimo
  • Old Polish: mimo, miemo
    • Masurian: nimo
    • Polish: mimo
    • Silesian: mimo
  • Old Slovak: mimo
    • Slovak: mimo
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: mimò
  • Polabian: maimü
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mimo
    • Upper Sorbian: nimo

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mimo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 50
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ми́мо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress