Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/me

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Adverb

*me

in the middle of, near, by, around, with

Derived terms

*medʰi- (“with, among”)
- *médʰyos (“middle”)
*me-t(e)h₂
- Proto-Germanic: *midi
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: μετά (metá)
*mé-ǵʰ(s)ri (with root *ǵʰes-)
- Proto-Albanian: *a/N(e)dri
  - Albanian: ndjerë
- Armenian:
  - Old Armenian: մերձ (merj)
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: μέχρι (mékhri)
*m̥-ǵʰ(s)ri (with root *ǵʰes-)
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: ἄχρι (ákhri)

Descendants

Albanian: me

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 702