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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From the same root as *mestì (“to throw, to sweep”).[1]
Verb
*metàti impf[1][2]
- (transitive) to throw
Inflection
Conjugation of
*metati, *meta, *meťetь (
impf.,
tr., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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| *metanьje
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*metati
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*metatъ
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*metalъ
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Participles
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| Tense
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Past
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Present
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| Passive
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*metanъ
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*meťemъ
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| Active
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*metavъ
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*meťę
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Aorist
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Present
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| Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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| Singular
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*metaxъ |
*meta |
*meta
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*meťǫ |
*meťeši |
*meťetь
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| Dual
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*metaxově |
*metasta |
*metaste
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*meťevě |
*meťeta |
*meťete
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| Plural
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*metaxomъ |
*metaste |
*metašę
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*meťemъ |
*meťete |
*meťǫtь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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| Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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| Singular
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*metaaxъ |
*metaaše |
*metaaše
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— |
*meťi |
*meťi
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| Dual
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*metaaxově |
*metaašeta |
*metaašete
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*meťivě |
*meťita |
—
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| Plural
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*metaaxomъ |
*metaašete |
*metaaxǫ
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*meťimъ |
*meťite |
—
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: метати (metati)
- Belarusian: мята́цца (mjatácca)
- Russian: мета́ть (metátʹ)
- Ukrainian: мета́ти (metáty)
- Old Novgorodian: мета́ти (metáti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: метати (metati)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- ⇒ Bulgarian: мя́там (mjátam) (via vṛddhi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: мѐтати
- Latin script: mètati
- Slovene: metáti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: metati
- Polabian: micĕ
- Old Polish: miotać
- Polish: miotać, mietać (archaic)
- Slovak: metať
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mjataś
- Upper Sorbian: mjetać
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мечу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мета́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 527
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*metati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 112
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*metàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309: “v. (b) ‘throw’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “metati: metjǫ metjetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b kaste (SA 210; PT 136)”