Proto-Celtic · reconstructed language

*madyeti

verb

Meaning

to break, burst

Etymology / origin

Possibly from (and formally derivable from) Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet, moist”), though the semantic connection is weak; the evolution could have been from describing the bursting of streams and torrents to the more general use of breaking and bursting. Similar sense development is found in Serbo-Croatian prsnuti (“to explode, blow up”) and prskati (“to sprinkle, squirt, water”).

prsnuti(Serbo-Croatian)→
*meh₂d-(ine-pro)→
madyeti (Proto-Celtic)
Relations: der, cog

Related words

*meh₂d-(ine-pro)prsnuti(Serbo-Croatian)

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