<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Germanic *mōtō, whence also Medieval Latin mūta (“toll”). Compare German Maut (“toll”) *<span class="searchmatch">mytò</span> n tax * -ъmь in North <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>, -omь in South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>...
collector”) and *bukařь (“scribe, literate man”)) and their base forms (*<span class="searchmatch">myto</span> (“payment, gift”) and *buky (“beech; record; document”) which enabled synchronic...
From *<span class="searchmatch">myto</span> + *-ařь. *mytařь m tax collector * -ьmь in North <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>, -emь in South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>. South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Old Church Slavonic: мꙑтарь (mytarĭ)...
since other financial terminology in early <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> was mostly of Germanic origin: e.g. <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">myto</span> (“tax”), *lixva (“interest”), *pěnędzь (“coin”)...
tax”) (probably from earlier *mūʔta) → Livonian: mūita (“customs”) → <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: *<span class="searchmatch">mytò</span> (see there for further descendants) ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “705-06”...