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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďa

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

Derksen: from Proto-Balto-Slavic *medjas, *medjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰieh₂.

ЭССЯ: from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyā.

Both of these are, ultimately, the feminine form of Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian mẽdis (“tree”), mẽdžias (“forest”), mẽdė (“forest”), Latvian mežs (“forest”), Old Prussian median (“forest”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya, “middle, located in the middle”), Latin medius (“middle”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis, “middle”), Ancient Greek μέσσος (méssos), μέσος (mésos, “middle of, between, amidst”), Old Irish mide (“medium”), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior”), Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“middle, mid”).

Noun

*meďà f[1][2]

  1. border, boundary, balk

Inflection
Declension of *meďà (soft a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *meďà *mèďi *meďę̇̀
genitive *meďę̇̀ *meďù *mèďь
dative *meďì *meďàma *meďàmъ
accusative *meďǫ̀ *mèďi *meďę̇̀
instrumental *meďèjǫ, *mèďǫ** *meďàma *meďàmī
locative *meďì *meďù *meďàsъ, *meďàxъ*
vocative *meďe *mèďi *meďę̇̀
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: межа (meža)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: mez
    • Polabian: midźă
    • Polish: miedza
    • Slovak: medza
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: mjaza
      • Upper Sorbian: mjeza

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “межа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*medja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 45

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*medjà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 305: “f. jā (b) ‘border, boundary, balk’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “medja medjě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (NA 92, 141; SA 20); b/c (PR 135) boundary”
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