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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъd(ь)lěti

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, *mъdьlь + *-ěti.

Verb

*mъd(ь)lěti[1]

  1. to delay
  2. to languish, to faint

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мьдлѣти (mĭdlěti)
      • Old Ruthenian: млѣти (mlěti)
        • Belarusian: млець (mljecʹ)
        • Ukrainian: млі́ти (mlíty)
      • Middle Russian: медлѣти (medlěti), медлꙗти (medljati)
        • Russian: млеть (mletʹ); мльеть (mlʹjetʹ), мале́ть (malétʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⰿⱏⰴⰾⱑⱅⰻ (mŭdlěti), ⰿⱐⰴⰾⱑⱅⰻ (mĭdlěti)
      Old Cyrillic script: мъдлѣти (mŭdlěti), мьдлѣти (mĭdlěti)
    • Slovene: medléti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Kashubian: mglec
    • Old Czech: mdléti
      • Czech: mdlet, mdlít (obsolete)
    • Old Polish: mdléć, mgleć
    • Slovak: mdleť (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “млеть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъd(ь)lěti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 207
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