màti

màti Grammatical information: f. r Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `mother'

Page in Trubačev: XVII 254-259

Old Church Slavic:

mati `mother' [f r], matere [Gens]

Russian:

mat' `mother' [f r], máteri [Gens]

Old Russian:

mati `mother' [f r], matere [Gens]

Old Czech:

máti `mother' [f r], mateře [Gens]

Old Polish:

mać `mother' [f r], macierze [Gens]

Serbo-Croatian:

mȁti `mother' [f r], mȁterē [Gens];

Čak. mȁti (Vrgada) `mother' [f r], mȁterē [Gens];

Čak. mȁt (Novi, Orbanići) `mother' [f r], mȁteri [Gens]

Slovene:

máti `mother' [f r], mátere [Gens]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: máʔter-

Lithuanian:

mótė (OLith, dial.) `wife, mother' [f r] 1 \{1\}

Latvian:

mãte `mother' [f ē] \{2\}

Old Prussian:

mūti (Ench.) `mother' [f];

mothe (EV) `mother' [f];

muti (Gr.) `mother' [f]

Indo-European reconstruction: meh₂ter-

IE meaning: mother

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 700ff

Comments: The root stress in this word may be due to Hirt's law, cf. Skt. mātā́ , but there is a distinct possibility that it is old, cf. Gk. μήτηρ.

Other cognates:

Skt. mātár- `mother' [f];

Gk. μήτηρ `mother' [f];

Lat. māter `mother' [f];

OHG muoter `mother' [f];

OIr. máthir `mother' [f];

Alb. mótrë `sister' [f]

Notes:

\{1\} The oldest form of the genitive is móteres, which occurs, for instance, in DP and in dialects. The most important Standard Lithuanian derivatives are móteris `wife, mother' and mótina `mother'. The form motė̃, which frequently occurs in the older scholarly literature, does not exist. \{2\} The accentuation mâte (Pokorny) is incorrect.