Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mitě

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.

Probably fossilized locative case of *mito (“turn, twist, arc”) +‎ *-ě, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

*mitě

1. in turn, following
2. alternately

• *mitъ (“turnabout”)
  • *mititi (“to knead, to mix”)
  • *mitati (“to roam, to wander”)
  • *mitorъ (“mixture”)
• *mitva (“mix”)
• *mitusь (“confusion, mess”)
• *mimo, *mivo (“by, past”)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: митѣ (mitě)
  • Bulgarian: ми́те (míte) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми́ће (dialectal)

    Latin script: míće (dialectal)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mitě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мит³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 131