medjà

medjà Grammatical information: f. jā Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `border, boundary, balk'

Page in Trubačev: XVIII 45-47

Old Church Slavic:

meždaxъ (Supr.) `alleys' [Locpf jā]

Russian:

mežá `boundary, boundary-strip' [f jā], mežú [Accs]

Ukrainian:

mežá `boundary, boundary-strip' [f jā], mežú [Accs]

Czech:

meze `balk, border' [f jā]

Slovak:

medza `balk, border' [f jā]

Polish:

miedza `balk, border' [f jā]

Upper Sorbian:

mjeza `balk, border' [f jā]

Serbo-Croatian:

mèđa `boundary, border' [f jā], mȅđu [Accs];

mejȁ (dial.) `boundary, boundary-strip' [f jā], mejȕ [Accs];

Čak. mejȁ (Vrgada) `boundary, border' [f jā], mȅju [Accs]

Slovene:

méja `boundary, fence, shrub(s), grove' [f jā]

Bulgarian:

meždá `balk' [f jā]

Lithuanian:

mẽdžias `forest' [m io]

Latvian:

mežs `wood' [m io]

Old Prussian:

median `wood'

Indo-European reconstruction: medʰ-ieh₂

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 706

Other cognates:

Skt. mádhya- (RV+) `middle, located in the middle' [adj];

Lat. medius `middle, located in the middle' [adj];

Go. midjis `middle' [adj]