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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měra

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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.

Proto-Slavic

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Etymology

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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

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*mě̀ra f[1][2]

  1. measure

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Separate borrowings:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́ра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ме́ра”, 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 524
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*měra”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 178

References

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