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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/migati

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 *meigātei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian meicte (“to sleep”).

Verb

*migàti impf[1][2]

  1. to blink

Inflection
Conjugation of *migati, *miga, *migajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*miganьje *migati *migatъ *migalъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *miganъ *migajemъ
Active *migavъ *migaję
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *migaxъ*miga*miga *migajǫ*migaješi*migajetь
Dual *migaxově*migasta*migaste *migajevě*migajeta*migajete
Plural *migaxomъ*migaste*migašę *migajemъ*migajete*migajǫtь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *migaaxъ*migaaše*migaaše —*migaji*migaji
Dual *migaaxově*migaašeta*migaašete *migajivě*migajita—
Plural *migaaxomъ*migaašete*migaaxǫ *migajimъ*migajite—
  • *mȋgъ (“blink, moment”)
  • *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”)

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:
      • Lower Sorbian: migaś

Further reading
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “мига́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 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
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*migati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 316: “v. ‘blink’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “mȋgati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*miga̋ti”
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