Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měxъ

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *maišás, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós. Cognate with Lithuanian maĩšas (“bag, sack”), Latvian màiss (“bag”), Old Prussian moasis (“bellows”), Sanskrit मेष m (meṣá, “ram, sheep”), Classical Persian میش (mēš, “sheep, ewe”), Old Norse meiss m (“basket”), Old High German meisa m (“pannier”).

Noun

*mě̑xъ m

1. leather bag

Declension

Declension of *mě̑xъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mě̑xъ	*mě̑xa	*mě̑śi
genitive	*mě̑xa	*měxù	*mě̃xъ
dative	*mě̑xu	*měxomà	*měxòmъ
accusative	*mě̑xъ	*mě̑xa	*mě̑xy
instrumental	*mě̑xъmь, *mě̑xomь*	*měxomà	*měxý
locative	*mě̑śě	*měxù	*měśě̃xъ
vocative	*měše	*mě̑xa	*mě̑śi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѣхъ (měxŭ)
    • Belarusian: мех (mjex)
    • Russian: мех (mex)
    • Ukrainian: міх (mix)
  • Old Novgorodian: мѣхе (měxe)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѣхъ (měxŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱑⱈⱏ (měxŭ)

  • Bulgarian: мях (mjah), мех (meh)
  • Macedonian: мев (mev)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̑х, мије̑х

    Latin: mȇh, mijȇh

  • Slovene: mẹ̑h (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: miech
  • Old Czech: měch
    • Czech: měch
  • Polish: miech
  • Slovak: mech
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: měch

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měxь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 156