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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měra

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 *mḗˀrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-reh₂, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “plan, ruse”), Old English mǣþ (“measure”), Sanskrit माति (mā́ti), मिमाति (mímāti, “to measure, to assign”), मात्रा (mā́trā, “measure”), Latin mētior (“to measure”), Albanian mat, mas (“to measure”).

Noun

*mě̀ra f[1][2]

  1. measure

Inflection

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мѣра (měra)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: мѣра (měra)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: мя́ра (mjára)
    • Macedonian: мера (mera)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ме̏ра
      Latin script: mȅra
    • Slovene: mẹ́ra (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Separate borrowings:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ме́ра”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “ме́ра”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 524
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měra”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 178

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mě̀ra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 312: “f. ā (a) ‘measure’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “měra”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 109)”
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