Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/mey-
Most sources that I have consulted consider *mey- and *men- separate, unrelated roots. This list mixes the reflexes of the two. --Vahag (talk) 11:04, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
- True. Words in men-, man-, mon- or mun- (such as *muniwō) cannot possibly belong here. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
mey- "(ex)change"[edit]
The entry cannot stand as it is. If you want to include la:migro in the list of derivatives the root has to be *h2mey- because of grc:ἀμείβω (whence the -gw-!). My proposal:
- Create an entry h2meygw-. Explain in this entry that this is perhaps an extension of h2mey-.
- Create an entry h2mey- "(ex)change". It should be explained in this entry that the h2- is based solely on the inclusion of h2meygw- and its descendants, and that no laryngeal is necessary if this is seen as a separate root.
- Under mey- "change", refer to h2mey-.
If you want to obtain the lemma as it is you have to delete meygw- from the list of extensions (and create an entry h2meygw-). --77.7.57.167 10:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Connection[edit]
Possibly related to méǵh₂s (great), méǵh₂-ne (not great), all stemming from earlier meɲ- (powerful, great, energy), as suggested by many words with all this stems having an additional -ni- or -n-. This would relate it in deep prehistory to mana, manna, and mnw (original sense: growth, with life force). Houses39 (talk) 22:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)