*mei-(1)
“动、走、移”的原始印欧语根,“派生词涉及由习俗或法律所规范的社会内物品和服务的交换” [Watkins]。
构成以下词语或部分词语: amiss; amoeba; azimuth; common; commune; communicate; communication; communism; commute; congee; demean; emigrate; emigration; excommunicate; excommunication; immune; immutable; incommunicado; mad; mean (adj.1) “质量低劣的”; mew (n.2) “笼子”; mews; migrate; migration; mis- (1)“坏的,错误的”; mistake; Mithras; molt; Mstislav; municipal; munificent; mutable; mutant; mutate; mutation; mutatis mutandis; mutual; permeable; permeate; permutation; permute; remunerate; remuneration; transmutation; transmute; zenith。
源自假设形式而实证存在的包括但不限于以下语言:梵语 methati “变化,交替,相遇”; 阿维斯塔语 mitho “扭曲的,错误的”; 赫梯语 mutai- “转变为”; 拉丁语 mutare “改变”, meare “去,经过”, migrare “从一个地方移动到另一个地方”, mutuus “用交换的方式完成”; 古教堂斯拉夫语 mite “交替的”; 捷克语 mijim “走过,经过”; 波兰语 mijać “避免”; 哥特语 maidjan “改变”。
*mei-(2)
原始印欧语根词,意为“小”。
它构成或部分构成以下单词: administer; administration; comminute; diminish; meiosis; Menshevik; menu; metier; mince; minestrone; minim; minimum; minister; ministration; ministry; minor; minuend; minuet; minus; minuscule; minute; minutia; Miocene; mis-(2); mite(n.2)“小东西”; mystery(n.2)“手工艺,贸易,艺术”; nimiety。
它是假设的来源/其存在的证据由以下提供:梵语 miyate “减少,下降”; 希腊语 meion “更少,更小”; 拉丁语 minus, minor “更小”, minuere “减少,缩小”; 古英语 minsian “减少”; 俄语 men'she “更少”。