Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/misa

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

Probably through Germanic intermediation (compare Old High German mias), borrowed from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”).

Noun

*mìsa f

1. bowl

Declension

Declension of *mìsa (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mìsa	*mìsě	*mìsy
genitive	*mìsy	*mìsu	*mìsъ
dative	*mìsě	*mìsama	*mìsamъ
accusative	*mìsǫ	*mìsě	*mìsy
instrumental	*mìsojǫ, *mìsǭ**	*mìsama	*mìsamī
locative	*mìsě	*mìsu	*mìsasъ, *mìsaxъ*
vocative	*mìso	*mìsě	*mìsy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *mìsъka (diminutive)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ми́са (mísa)
    • Old Belarusian: ми́са (mísa)
      • Belarusian: мі́са (mísa); мы́са (mýsa) (dialectal)
    • Russian: ми́са (mísa)
    • Old Ukrainian: ми́са (mísa)
      • Ukrainian: ми́са (mýsa); ми́ся́ (mýsjá) (childish)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: миса (misa)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⰺⱄⰰ (misa)

    • Bulgarian: ми́са (mísa) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: миса (misa) (Northeastern dialect)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: misa
    • Czech: mísa, misa
  • Polish: misa
  • Slovak: misa
  • Slovincian: mísa
    • ⇒ Slovincian: mjiscê

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*misa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 58
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ми́са”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “ми́са”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 465
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “мі́са”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “ми́са”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 121