Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďu
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Fossilized from the locative dual of *meďa (“border; boundary”); literally, "in the (two) borders".
Preposition
[edit]*meďu
- between, among [with instrumental]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]West Slavic languages continue *meďi instead.
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: між (miž), памі́ж (pamíž), про́меж (prómjež)
- Russian: меж (mež), межу (mežu) (dialectal or obsolete), проме́ж (proméž)
- Carpathian Rusyn: меж (mež), межи (mežy), змежи (zmežy), помежи (pomežy), спомежи (spomežy), испомежи (yspomežy)
- Ukrainian: між (miž), меж (mež) (dialectal), ме́жи́ (méžý), по́між (pómiž, “in a row, near”) (dialectal), помі́ж (pomíž), поме́жи (poméžy), про́між (prómiž)
- South Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́жду”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress