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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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

Preposition

*meďu

between, among [with instrumental]

Related terms

*meďi, a form used in West Slavic
*meďa

Descendants

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