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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďu

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

Fossilized from the locative dual of *meďa (“border; boundary”); literally, "in the (two) borders".

Preposition

*meďu

  1. between, among [+instrumental]

Descendants

West Slavic languages continue *meďi instead.

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: між (miž), памі́ж (pamíž), про́меж (prómjež)
    • Russian: меж (mež), межу (mežu) (dialectal or obsolete), проме́ж (proméž)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: меж (mež), межи (mežy), змежи (zmežy), помежи (pomežy), спомежи (spomežy), испомежи (yspomežy)
    • Ukrainian: між (miž), меж (mež) (dialectal), ме́жи́ (méžý), по́між (pómiž, “in a row, near”) (dialectal), помі́ж (pomíž), поме́жи (poméžy), про́між (prómiž)
      • Ukrainian: з-між (z-miž), з-по́між (z-pómiž), з-промі́ж (z-promíž)
  • South Slavic:

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