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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/městiti

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

By surface analysis, *město (location) + *-iti.

Verb

*městiti (sę) [1]

  1. (reflexive) to move, to change location

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мѣстити (městiti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: мѣстити (městiti)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
      Cyrillic script: мјестити
      Latin script: mjestiti
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: mestit, místit
    • Kashubian: miescëc
    • Polish: mieścić

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*městiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 202
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