Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/migati

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 *meigātei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian meicte (“to sleep”).

Verb

*migàti impf

1. to blink

Inflection

Conjugation of *migati, *miga, *migajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*miganьje	*migati	*migatъ	*migalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*miganъ	*migajemъ
Active	*migavъ	*migaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*migaxъ	*miga	*miga	*migajǫ	*migaješi	*migajetь
Dual	*migaxově	*migasta	*migaste	*migajevě	*migajeta	*migajete
Plural	*migaxomъ	*migaste	*migašę	*migajemъ	*migajete	*migajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*migaaxъ	*migaaše	*migaaše	—	*migaji	*migaji
Dual	*migaaxově	*migaašeta	*migaašete	*migajivě	*migajita	—
Plural	*migaaxomъ	*migaašete	*migaaxǫ	*migajimъ	*migajite	—

Related terms

• *mьglà, *mьgà, *miglъ (“mist, haze”)
• *mьgnǫti (“to blink”)
• *mьža (“drizzle? slumber?”)
• *mьžati, *mižati (“to doze, to screw up one's eyes; to drizzle”)
• *mьžiti (“to blink? to doze?; to drizzle”)
• *mȋgъ (“blink, moment”)

• *měžiti (“to blink, to move”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мигати (migati)
    • Belarusian: міга́ць (mihácʹ)
    • Russian: мига́ть (migátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мига́ти (myháty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ми́гам (mígam)
  • Macedonian: мига (miga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми̏гати

    Latin script: mȉgati

  • Slovene: mȋgati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: míhat
  • Polabian: ḿėgojĕ
  • Old Polish: migać
    • Polish: migać
  • Slovak: migáť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: migaś

Further reading

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мига́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 529
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “миг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*migati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 26