Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/męzdra

This Proto-Slavic 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.

• *męzdro n

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mēmstra n (*mēmstrāˀ f), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms-rom, from *mḗms (“flesh, meat”). Cognate with Latin membrum, Proto-Celtic *mīðrom.

Changing *-str- > *-zdr- under the influence of *dьrati.

*męzdra f^[1][2]

1. the inner side of a hide

• *męso (“meat”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѧздра (męzdra), мездра (mezdra), мѧждра (męždra)
    • Old Ruthenian: *мѧздра (*mjazdra), *мездра (*mezdra)
      • Belarusian: мяздра́ (mjazdrá); мездра́ (mjezdrá) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: міздря́ (mizdrjá); мездра́ (mezdrá) (dialectal)
    • Russian: мездра́ (mezdrá); мяздра́ (mjazdrá) (archaic, dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѧздра (męzdra)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱔⰸⰴⱃⰰ (męzdra)

  • Bulgarian: ме́здра́ (mézdrá) (dialectal, obsolete)
  • Macedonian: мездра (mezdra)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic script: ме́здра

    Latin script: mézdra

  • Slovene: mę̑zdra, mę̑zda, mę̑dra (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mázdra
    • Czech: mázdra, mízdra, mázgra, mízgra
  • Old Polish: miązdra, mięzdra
    • Polish: mizdra, miazdra; mięzdra (dialectal)
  • Old Slovak: mazdra
    • Slovak: miazgra; mázdra, mázra (dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1972) “мяздра́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 29