Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/migati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *meyg-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian meicte (“to sleep”).

Verb

*migàti impf [1][2]

to blink

Inflection

Conjugation of *migati (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	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*migaaxъ	*migaaše	*migaaše	—	*migaji	*migaji
Dual	*migaaxově	*migaašeta	*migaašete	*migajivě	*migajita	—
Plural	*migaaxomъ	*migaašete	*migaaxǫ	*migajimъ	*migajite	—

Related terms

*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: ми̏гати
  
  Latin: mȉgati
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): mȉgati
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): mȉga (3sg.)
- Slovene: mȋgati (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: míhat
- Polabian: ḿėgojĕ
- Old Polish: migać
  - Polish: migać
- Slovak: migáť
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: migaś

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*migati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316: “v. ‘blink’”
Snoj, Marko (2016), “mȋgati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*miga̋ti”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*migati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316: “v. ‘blink’”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016), “mȋgati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*miga̋ti”