Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mitě

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 fossilized locative case of *mito (“turn, twist, arc”) +‎ *-ě, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

Adverb

*mitě

1. in turn, following
2. alternately

Related terms

• *mitъ (“turnabout”)
  • *mititi (“to knead, to mix”)
  • *mitati (“to roam, to wander”)
  • *mitorъ (“mixture”)
• *mitva (“mix”)
• *mitusь (“confusion, mess”)
• *mimo, *mivo (“by, past”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: митѣ (mitě)
  • Bulgarian: ми́те (míte) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ми́ће (dialectal)

    Latin script: míće (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mitě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мит³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 131