Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/minǫti

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 the root of *mijati (“to pass”) + *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Cognate with Latin meō (“to go, to pass”) (infinitive meāre).

*minǫti pf^[1][2]

1. to pass

• *mijati (“to pass”)
• *minovati (“to pass”)
• *mimo (“by, past”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: минꙋти (minuti)
    • Belarusian: міну́ць (minúcʹ)
    • Russian: мину́ть (minútʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мину́ти (mynúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: минѫти (minǫti)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: ми́на (mína)
  • Macedonian: мине (mine)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми́нути

    Latin script: mínuti

  • Slovene: minīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: minúti
    • Czech: minout
  • Old Polish: minąć
    • Polish: minąć
  • Slovak: minúť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: minyć
    • Lower Sorbian: minuś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “минова́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “2.*mei̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 426
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*minǫti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 52