Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/męčь
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Resultant noun from *męčati (“to squash, to knead”) + *-jь.
Noun
[edit]*męčь m[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of *mę̃čь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *mę̃čь | *mę̄čà | *mę̄čì |
genitive | *mę̄čà | *mę̄čù | *mę̃čь |
dative | *mę̄čù | *mę̄čèma | *mę̃čemъ |
accusative | *mę̃čь | *mę̄čà | *mę̄čę̇̀ |
instrumental | *mę̄čь̀mь, *mę̄čèmь* | *mę̄čèma | *mę̃či |
locative | *mę̄čì | *mę̄čù | *mę̃čixъ |
vocative | *męču | *mę̄čà | *mę̄čì |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- *męča (“mush”)
- *mękotь (“soft part of a structure, flesh, pulp”)
- *mękyšь (“soft bread/cake”)
- *mękъkъ (“soft, smushy”)
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: меч (meč), ме́чка (méčka, “soft bun or loaf of bread”) (dialectal)
- Slovene: mẹ̑č (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: minge
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мяч”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męčь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 234