Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/meďu

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.

Fossilized from the locative dual of *meďa (“border; boundary”); literally, "in the (two) borders".

*meďu

1. between, among [with instrumental]

• *meďi, a form used in West Slavic
• *meďa

West Slavic languages continue *meďi instead.

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: між (miž), памі́ж (pamíž), про́меж (prómjež)
  • Russian: меж (mež), межу (mežu) (dialectal or obsolete), проме́ж (proméž)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: меж (mež), межи (mežy), змежи (zmežy), помежи (pomežy), спомежи (spomežy), испомежи (yspomežy)
  • Ukrainian: між (miž), меж (mež) (dialectal), ме́жи́ (méžý), по́між (pómiž, “in a row, near”) (dialectal), помі́ж (pomíž), поме́жи (poméžy), про́між (prómiž)
    • Ukrainian: з-між (z-miž), з-по́між (z-pómiž), з-промі́ж (z-promíž)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: междоу (meždu), междю (meždju)
    • → Russian: ме́жду (méždu), проме́жду (proméždu)
  • Bulgarian: между́ (meždú)
  • Macedonian: меѓу (meǵu)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̏ђу

    Latin script: mȅđu

  • Slovene: med

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ме́жду”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress