"meh₂-" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

See meh₂- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Root

  1. good, great Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-ine_pro:good
  2. timely, opportune Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-PrW-51jF

Root

  1. wet, damp Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-ine_pro:wet Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Indo-European ReH-shape roots, Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header, Proto-Indo-European homonymic roots, Proto-Indo-European roots Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 100 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European ReH-shape roots: 0 5 95 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header: 0 3 97 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European homonymic roots: 0 3 97 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European roots: 0 3 97
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-i-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Anatolian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hit",
            "tr": "māi-"
          },
          "expansion": "Hittite: [script needed] (māi-)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hittite: [script needed] (māi-)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ni-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānis"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānis",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānis (> mānī, mānē, mānēs)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-nos"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānus"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānus, immānis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*māros"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *māros",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *māros (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*moh₂-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Hellenic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "-μωρος",
            "t": "great"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”) (ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi), σινάμωρος (sinámōros), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros))"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*matis"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *matis",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *matis (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-to-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sla-pro",
            "2": "*matorъ"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Slavic: *matorъ",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Slavic: *matorъ (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tu-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mātūrus"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mātūrus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mātūrus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tu-to-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "Mātūta"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: Mātūta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: Mātūta, mātūtīnus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*méh₂-yōs ~ *méh₂-is- (comparative)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "alt": "*māyūs"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *māyūs",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "see <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"cel-pro\">*māros</i> for further descendants"
          },
          "expansion": "(see *māros for further descendants)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *māyūs (see *māros for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*maizô",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Germanic: *maizô",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Germanic: *maizô, *maistaz"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*n̥-meh₂-u-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Hellenic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "perhaps"
          },
          "expansion": "(perhaps)",
          "name": "qualifier"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: (perhaps) ἀμαυρός (amaurós), μαυρός (maurós) (Suggested to mean weak from not great)"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "good, great"
      ],
      "id": "en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-ine_pro:good",
      "links": [
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "great",
          "great"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "ine-pro:good"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "timely, opportune"
      ],
      "id": "en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-PrW-51jF",
      "links": [
        [
          "timely",
          "timely"
        ],
        [
          "opportune",
          "opportune"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meh₂-"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-no-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānō"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānō",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānō"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ni-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*mānis"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *mānis",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *mānis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*mọn"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic: *mọn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Brythonic: *mọn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "br",
            "2": "man"
          },
          "expansion": "Breton: man",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Breton: man"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "mawn"
          },
          "expansion": "Welsh: mawn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Welsh: mawn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sga",
            "2": "móin",
            "t": "peat, moss"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Irish: móin (“peat, moss”)\nIrish: móin\nManx: moain\nScottish Gaelic: mòine",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Irish: móin (“peat, moss”)\nIrish: móin\nManx: moain\nScottish Gaelic: mòine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ro-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*mōraz"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Germanic: *mōraz",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Germanic: *mōraz (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European ReH-shape roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European homonymic roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wet, damp"
      ],
      "id": "en-meh₂--ine-pro-root-ine_pro:wet",
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ],
        [
          "damp",
          "damp"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "ine-pro:wet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meh₂-"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Indo-European ReH-shape roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Indo-European homonymic roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
    "Proto-Indo-European roots"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-i-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Anatolian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hit",
            "tr": "māi-"
          },
          "expansion": "Hittite: [script needed] (māi-)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hittite: [script needed] (māi-)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ni-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānis"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānis",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānis (> mānī, mānē, mānēs)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-nos"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānus"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānus, immānis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*māros"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *māros",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *māros (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*moh₂-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Hellenic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "-μωρος",
            "t": "great"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: -μωρος (-mōros, “great”) (ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi), σινάμωρος (sinámōros), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros))"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*matis"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *matis",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *matis (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-to-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sla-pro",
            "2": "*matorъ"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Slavic: *matorъ",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Slavic: *matorъ (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tu-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mātūrus"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mātūrus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mātūrus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-tu-to-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "Mātūta"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: Mātūta",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: Mātūta, mātūtīnus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*méh₂-yōs ~ *méh₂-is- (comparative)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "alt": "*māyūs"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *māyūs",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "see <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"cel-pro\">*māros</i> for further descendants"
          },
          "expansion": "(see *māros for further descendants)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *māyūs (see *māros for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*maizô",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Germanic: *maizô",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Germanic: *maizô, *maistaz"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*n̥-meh₂-u-rós"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Hellenic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "perhaps"
          },
          "expansion": "(perhaps)",
          "name": "qualifier"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: (perhaps) ἀμαυρός (amaurós), μαυρός (maurós) (Suggested to mean weak from not great)"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "good, great"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "great",
          "great"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "ine-pro:good"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "timely, opportune"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "timely",
          "timely"
        ],
        [
          "opportune",
          "opportune"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meh₂-"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Indo-European ReH-shape roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Indo-European homonymic roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
    "Proto-Indo-European roots"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-no-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "mānō"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: mānō",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: mānō"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ni-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-pro",
            "2": "*mānis"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Celtic: *mānis",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Celtic: *mānis"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*mọn"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic: *mọn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Brythonic: *mọn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "br",
            "2": "man"
          },
          "expansion": "Breton: man",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Breton: man"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "mawn"
          },
          "expansion": "Welsh: mawn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Welsh: mawn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sga",
            "2": "móin",
            "t": "peat, moss"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Irish: móin (“peat, moss”)\nIrish: móin\nManx: moain\nScottish Gaelic: mòine",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Irish: móin (“peat, moss”)\nIrish: móin\nManx: moain\nScottish Gaelic: mòine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*meh₂-ro-"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*mōraz"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Germanic: *mōraz",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Germanic: *mōraz (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/meh₂-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wet, damp"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ],
        [
          "damp",
          "damp"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "ine-pro:wet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meh₂-"
}

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