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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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *meigātei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian meicte (“to sleep”).
Verb
*migàti impf[1][2]
- to blink
Inflection
Conjugation of
*migati, *miga, *migajetь (
impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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| *miganьje
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*migati
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*migatъ
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*migalъ
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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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*miganъ
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*migajemъ
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| Active
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*migavъ
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*migaję
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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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*migaxъ |
*miga |
*miga
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*migajǫ |
*migaješi |
*migajetь
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| Dual
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*migaxově |
*migasta |
*migaste
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*migajevě |
*migajeta |
*migajete
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| Plural
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*migaxomъ |
*migaste |
*migašę
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*migajemъ |
*migajete |
*migajǫtь
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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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*migaaxъ |
*migaaše |
*migaaše
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*migaji |
*migaji
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| Dual
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*migaaxově |
*migaašeta |
*migaašete
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*migajivě |
*migajita |
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| Plural
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*migaaxomъ |
*migaašete |
*migaaxǫ
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*migajimъ |
*migajite |
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- *mьglà, *mьgà, *miglъ (“mist, haze”)
- *mьgnǫti (“to blink”)
- *mьža (“drizzle? slumber?”)
- *mьžati, *mižati (“to doze, to screw up one's eyes; to drizzle”)
- *mьžiti (“to blink? to doze?; to drizzle”)
- *mȋgъ (“blink, moment”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мигати (migati)
- Belarusian: міга́ць (mihácʹ)
- Russian: мига́ть (migátʹ)
- Ukrainian: мига́ти (myháty)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ми́гам (mígam)
- Macedonian: мига (miga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ми̏гати
- Latin script: mȉgati
- Slovene: mȋgati (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: míhat
- Polabian: ḿėgojĕ
- Old Polish: migać
- Slovak: migáť
- Sorbian:
Further reading
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мига́ть”, 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 529
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “миг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*migati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 26
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*migati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316: “v. ‘blink’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “mȋgati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*miga̋ti”