Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/míglāˀ

This Proto-Balto-Slavic 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.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃mígʰleh₂ (“mist, cloud”).

Reconstruction

R. Derksen reconstructs the stress on the ending in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform,^[1]^[2] apparently completely ignoring Dybo's law in the Proto-Slavic language, and de Saussure's law in the Lithuanian language, in order to break open the Illich-Svitych' system.^[3] It also ignores the typical comparison of the Lithuanian 2 (> 4) stress pattern with the Proto-Slavic accent paradigm b. Perhaps, this was done in order to fit and reconstruct the ending stress in the Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰléh₂ as required by mainstream Indo-European theory.

However, this reconstruction of the stress is contradicted by the Ancient Greek stress in the wordform ὀμίχλη (omíkhlē).^[4] Also, if you don't ignore the above accentological laws, then in the Proto-Balto-Slavic wordform, the stress is reconstructed at the root.^[5] This corresponds to the Ancient Greek stress. To compare with *wáljāˀ.

Noun

*míglāˀ f

fog, mist

Inflection

Declension of *míglāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*míglāˀ	*míglāiˀ	*míglās
Accusative	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾n	*míglāiˀ	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾s	*míglāu⁽ˀ⁾	*míglōn
Locative	*míglāiˀ	*míglāu⁽ˀ⁾	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾su
Dative	*míglāi	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mā⁽ˀ⁾	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mas
Instrumental	*míglāˀn	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾māˀ	*míglā⁽ˀ⁾mīˀs
Vocative	*mígla	*míglāiˀ	*míglās

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: mygla
- Latvian: migla
- Lithuanian: miglà
Proto-Slavic: *mьglà (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьglà; *mьgà; *miglъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338: “*migláH”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “migla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*migláʔ”
^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎^[1] (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences
^ Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40
^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 52-54: “Dybo's law”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьglà; *mьgà; *miglъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338: “*migláH”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “migla”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317: “*migláʔ”

[3] Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎^[1] (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences

[4] Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40

[5] Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 52-54: “Dybo's law”

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