Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъd(ь)lěti

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

By surface analysis, *mъdьlь +‎ *-ěti.

Verb

*mъd(ь)lěti

1. to delay
2. to languish, to faint

Inflection

Conjugation of *mъd(ь)lěti, *mъd(ь)lě, *mъd(ь)lějetь (?, -ě-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*mъd(ь)lěnьje	*mъd(ь)lěti	*mъd(ь)lětъ	*mъd(ь)lělъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*mъd(ь)lěnъ	*mъd(ь)lějemъ
Active	*mъd(ь)lěvъ	*mъd(ь)lěję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъd(ь)lěxъ	*mъd(ь)lě	*mъd(ь)lě	*mъd(ь)lějǫ	*mъd(ь)lěješi	*mъd(ь)lějetь
Dual	*mъd(ь)lěxově	*mъd(ь)lěsta	*mъd(ь)lěste	*mъd(ь)lějevě	*mъd(ь)lějeta	*mъd(ь)lějete
Plural	*mъd(ь)lěxomъ	*mъd(ь)lěste	*mъd(ь)lěšę	*mъd(ь)lějemъ	*mъd(ь)lějete	*mъd(ь)lějǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъd(ь)lěaxъ	*mъd(ь)lěaše	*mъd(ь)lěaše	—	*mъd(ь)lěji	*mъd(ь)lěji
Dual	*mъd(ь)lěaxově	*mъd(ь)lěašeta	*mъd(ь)lěašete	*mъd(ь)lějivě	*mъd(ь)lějita	—
Plural	*mъd(ь)lěaxomъ	*mъd(ь)lěašete	*mъd(ь)lěaxǫ	*mъd(ь)lějimъ	*mъd(ь)lějite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мьдлѣти (mĭdlěti)
    • Old Ruthenian: млѣти (mlěti)
      • Belarusian: млець (mljecʹ)
      • Ukrainian: млі́ти (mlíty)
    • Middle Russian: медлѣти (medlěti), медлꙗти (medljati)
      • Russian: млеть (mletʹ); мльеть (mlʹjetʹ), мале́ть (malétʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱏⰴⰾⱑⱅⰻ (mŭdlěti), ⰿⱐⰴⰾⱑⱅⰻ (mĭdlěti)

    Old Cyrillic script: мъдлѣти (mŭdlěti), мьдлѣти (mĭdlěti)

  • Slovene: medléti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: mglec
  • Old Czech: mdléti
    • Czech: mdlet, mdlít (obsolete)
  • Old Polish: mdléć, mgleć
    • Polish: mdleć; mgleć (dialectal)
    • Silesian: mdleć
  • Slovak: mdleť (dialectal)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “млеть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress