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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
- From dissimilation of earlier *měmъ.
- Compare Latvian mēms (“dumb, mute, silent”), Old Polish omienieć (“to become dumb”), Latin mūtus (“mute, dumb, silent”), Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “mime, actor”), German mummeln, English mumble, Swedish mumla.
- Compare *ku- + *jьm-, *jьmǫ, *ęti > *kujьmъ (> Russian ку́и́м (kúím, “deaf-mute; tongue-tied man; silent man;”)). Latvian mēms is possibly borrowing from Slavic with assimilation n-m > m-m.
Adjective
*němъ
- unclear or incomprehensible speaker, muttering, mammering
- dumb, mute (not able to speak)
Declension
Indefinite declension of *němъ (hard)
Definite declension of *němъ (hard)
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нѣмъ (němŭ)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “немой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “немой”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 568
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*němъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 100