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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maxati

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *māˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂s-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian mosúoti (“to wave”). See *majati (“to wave, to beckon”) for more.

Verb

*māxàti impf[1][2]

  1. to wave

Inflection

  • *majati, *mavati (“to wave, to beckon”)
  • *manǫti (“to beckon”)
  • *mamiti, *maniti (“to deceive”)
  • *mȃmъ (“deceit”)
  • *mara (“ghost, apparition”)
  • *morà (“nightly spirit, nightmare”)
  • *matati (“to frighten? to swindle?”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: махати (maxati)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: máchati
      • Czech: máchat
    • Old Polish: machać
    • Slovak: máchať
    • Slovincian: mȧ̃χăc
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: machać
      • Lower Sorbian: machaś

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*māxàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 298: “v. ‘wave’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “maxati: maxjǫ maxjetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b svinge, vinke (PR 137)”
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