миг

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ (“blink”) via semantic shift “blink, wink” → “short moment of time”.

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миг • (mig) m

1. moment, instant, flash

   Synonym: моме́нт (momént)

2. moment (point in time)

   Synonym: моме́нт (momént)

• ми́гом (mígom, “immediately”) (adverb, old instrumental case)

• ми́гам impf (mígam, “to blink”), ми́гна pf (mígna)
  • мига́ло (migálo, “eyelid”) (colloquial)
  • мига́ч (migáč, “indicator light”)
• ми́гла (mígla, “eyelash”)

• “миг”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “миг”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “мигъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 64
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “миг”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 782

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ, derived from the verb *migati, inherited into мига (miga, “to blink”) and намига (namiga, “to wink”).

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миг • (mig) m (relational adjective мигновен)

1. moment, instant
2. blink

• мигъ (mig) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.

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• Homophone: мик (mik)

миг • (mig) m inan (genitive ми́га, nominative plural ми́ги, genitive plural ми́гов)

1. moment, instant

   ми́гом ― mígom ― in a trice, in a flash

   • 1992, Виктор Пелевин, chapter 1, in Омон Ра; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., Omon Ra, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996:

     Передо мной была просто освещённая прожектором мозаика на стене павильона, изображавшая космонавта в открытом космосе, но она за один миг сказала мне больше, чем десятки книг, которые я прочёл к этому дню.

     Peredo mnoj byla prosto osveščónnaja prožektorom mozaika na stene pavilʹona, izobražavšaja kosmonavta v otkrytom kosmose, no ona za odin mig skazala mne bolʹše, čem desjatki knig, kotoryje ja pročól k etomu dnju.

     What I saw in front of me was simply a spotlit mosaic on the wall of an exhibition pavilion, a picture of a cosmonaut in open space, but it told me more in an instant than the dozens of books I’d read before that day.

• мига́ть (migátʹ)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.

ми̑г m (Latin spelling mȋg)

1. wink
2. hint
3. cue