"meďu" meaning in Proto-Slavic

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Preposition

Etymology: Fossilized from the locative dual of *meďa (“border; boundary”); literally, "in the (two) borders". Head templates: {{head|sla-pro|preposition|cat2=|head=|sort=}} *meďu
  1. between, among [with instrumental] Wikipedia link: Oleg Trubachyov, Rick Derksen Tags: reconstruction Related terms: meďi, a form used in West Slavic, meďa
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Proto-Slavic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.