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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mětiti

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This Proto-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-Slavic

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, *mětь, *měta (mark, note) +‎ *-iti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (measure), from *meh₁-. Akin to Latin mētior (to measure), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, counsel, plan), Sanskrit माति (māti, measure).

Verb

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*mětiti

  1. to measure
  2. to mark, to notice

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́тить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mětiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 222