Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/myto

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

Generally considered a borrowing from Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mōtō, whence also Medieval Latin mūta (“toll”). Compare German Maut (“toll”)

Noun

*mytò n

1. tax

Inflection

Declension of *mȳtò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà
genitive	*mȳtà	*mȳtù	*mỹtъ
dative	*mȳtù	*mȳtòma	*mȳtòmъ
accusative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà
instrumental	*mȳtъ̀mь, *mȳtòmь*	*mȳtòma	*mỹty
locative	*mȳtě̀	*mȳtù	*mỹtěxъ
vocative	*mȳtò	*mỹtě	*mȳtà

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

Descendants

• Old East Slavic: мꙑто (myto)
  • Belarusian: мы́та (mýta)
  • Russian: мы́то (mýto) (archaic)
  • Ukrainian: ми́то (mýto)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: мꙑто (myto)
    • Bulgarian: мито́ (mitó)
  • Macedonian: мито (mito, “bribe”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми́то (“bribe”)

    Latin script: míto (“bribe”)

  • Slovene: míto (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: mýto
  • Kashubian: mito
  • Polabian: moitĕ
  • Polish: myto
  • Slovak: mýto
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: myto
    • Upper Sorbian: myto