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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mьněti

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 *minḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *mn-eh₁- (present stem *mn-eye-), from the root *men- (to think, mind).

Verb

*mьně̀ti impf[1][2]

  1. to think

Conjugation

Alternative forms

  • *mьniti

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мьнѣти (mĭněti), мьнити (mĭniti)
      • Belarusian: мнець (mnjecʹ), мныць (mnycʹ) (obsolete)
      • Russian: мнить (mnitʹ)
      • Ukrainian: мни́ти (mnýty) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: мьнѣти (mĭněti)
    • Bulgarian: мня (mnja) (obsolete; now found only in prefixed verbs)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: мнјети (archaic), мни̏ти
      Latin: mnjeti, mnȉti
    • Slovene: mnẹ́ti (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: mnieti
      • Czech: mnět (archaic), mnít (literary)
    • Old Polish: mnieć
    • Slovak: mnieť (obsolete), Slovak: mieniť, Slovak: domnievať sa, Slovak: domnienka

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mьněti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 340: “v. ‘think’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), mnénje”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*mьně̋ti”
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