Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mězgyrь

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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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Apparently suffixed +‎ *-yrь (agentive suffix) from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mezgti (to twist, to weave, to sew, to entangle etc.) (Latvian mežģīt, Lithuanian mègzti), a Proto-Indo-European stem from which notably also Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ (loop, knot; mesh) derives, possibly also Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós (marrow; brain).

Noun

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*mězgyrь m

  1. tarantula
    Hypernym: *pàǭkъ

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mězgyrь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 226
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mazgarь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 26
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mozgyrь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 97
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мизгирь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress