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]

to delay
to languish, to faint

Inflection

Conjugation of *mъd(ь)lěti, *mъd(ь)lě, *mъd(ь)lějetь (?, -ě-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*mъd(ь)lěnьje	*mъd(ь)lěti	*mъd(ь)lětъ	*mъd(ь)lělъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*mъd(ь)lěnъ	*mъd(ь)lějemъ
Active	*mъd(ь)lěvъ	*mъd(ь)lěję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъd(ь)lěxъ	*mъd(ь)lě	*mъd(ь)lě	*mъd(ь)lějǫ	*mъd(ь)lěješi	*mъd(ь)lějetь
Dual	*mъd(ь)lěxově	*mъd(ь)lěsta	*mъd(ь)lěste	*mъd(ь)lějevě	*mъd(ь)lějeta	*mъd(ь)lějete
Plural	*mъd(ь)lěxomъ	*mъd(ь)lěste	*mъd(ь)lěšę	*mъd(ь)lějemъ	*mъd(ь)lějete	*mъd(ь)lějǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъd(ь)lěaxъ	*mъd(ь)lěaše	*mъd(ь)lěaše	—	*mъd(ь)lěji	*mъd(ь)lěji
Dual	*mъd(ь)lěaxově	*mъd(ь)lěašeta	*mъd(ь)lěašete	*mъd(ь)lějivě	*mъd(ь)lějita	—
Plural	*mъd(ь)lěaxomъ	*mъd(ь)lěašete	*mъd(ь)lěaxǫ	*mъd(ь)lějimъ	*mъd(ь)lějite	—

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
  - Polish: mdleć; mgleć (dialectal)
  - Silesian: mdleć
- Slovak: mdleť (dialectal)

References

^ 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

[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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