Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/migъ

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

It can be analyzed аs a verbal noun of *migati.

Noun

*migъ m

1. blink, moment

Inflection

Declension of *migъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*migъ	*miga	*midzi
genitive	*miga	*migu	*migъ
dative	*migu	*migoma	*migomъ
accusative	*migъ	*miga	*migy
instrumental	*migъmь, *migomь*	*migoma	*migy
locative	*midzě	*migu	*midzěxъ
vocative	*miže	*miga	*midzi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: мiг (mih)
  • Russian: миг (mig)
  • Ukrainian: миг (myh)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: миг (mig)
  • Macedonian: миг (mig)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми̑г

    Latin script: mȋg

  • Slovene: mȋg (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: mih
  • Polish: mig
  • Slovak: mih

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*migъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 30
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “миг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress