User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂y-

This 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.

Possibly reanalyzed from *méh₂-ye-ti, from *meh₂- (“to beckon”) +‎ *-yeti.^[1][2]

• *mey-^[3]

*meh₂y-^[1]

1. to deceive, hurt

• *méh₂i-se-ti (se-present)^[2]
  • Proto-Italic: *maiseō^[2]
    • Latin: maereō (“to be sad, mourn”)

• *meh₂y-éh₂
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *maHyáH^[4]
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *maHyáH
      • Sanskrit: माया (māyā́, “power; illusion, deception; apparition”)
        • ⇒ Sanskrit: मायिन् (māyin)
    • Proto-Iranian: *maHyáH
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬁𐬌𐬌𐬁 (māiiā)

• *méh₂y-ō ~ *mih₂-nés^[3]
  • Proto-Germanic: *mainaz (“false; hurtful”)
    • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *mainą
    • ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *mainjaną (“to demean, harm”)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mayHníš^[5]
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mayHníš
      • Sanskrit: मेनि (mení, “revenge, harming, magical power”)
    • Proto-Iranian: *mayHníš
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬌 (maēni, “punishment, castigation”)

• *mih₂-mó-s
  • Proto-Hellenic: *mīmós
    • Ancient Greek: μῖμος (mîmos, “deceit, focus, magician”)

• *mh₂i-s-o-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mHišam
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *mHišam
      • Sanskrit: मिष (miṣa, “illusion, fraud, deceit”)

Unsorted formations

• Proto-Slavic: *mȃmъ (“deceit”)
  • Czech: mam (“deceit, error, (dial.) apparition, ghost”)
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȃm (“lure, bait, temptation, charm, frenzy”)
  • Old Church Slavonic: mamъ (mamŭ, “foolish”)
  • Slovak: mam (“deceit, mirage”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *mamiti (“to deceive”) (merger with *manǫti (“to beckon”)?)
    • → Latvian: mãnît (“to blindfold, mislead, deceive”) (possible reborrowing)
    • → Lithuanian: mõnyti (“to practise sorcery”) (likely reborrowing)

• Proto-Indo-Iranian:
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
    • Sanskrit: मुषित (muṣita, “deceived”)