- *-smę(possibly in *čismę, *pismę)
Inherited fromProto-Balto-Slavic*-men,*-min, fromProto-Indo-European*-mn̥.
Cognate withOld Prussian-men,Lithuanian-muõ.
*-mę n
- Deverbal, what is being/to-be/became
- *znamę(“sign”) ⇐*znati(“to know”)
- *sěmę(“seed”) :*sějati(“to sow”),*sějetь
- *vermę ⇐**versti (⇒*verteno,*vortъ) :*vьrtěti(“to turn”)
- *bermę(“load, burden”) ⇐*bьrati(“to take, *carry”),*beretь,
- *plemę(“tribe”) ⇐**pledmę ⇐**plesti(“?”) (⇒*plodъ(“fruit”))
- *čismę(“number”) ⇐**čitsmę /**čitmę ⇐*čisti(“count”),*čьtetь
- *pismę ⇐*pisati /*pьsati,*pišetь
- Denominal, secondary or alternative
- *vymę(“udder”) ⇐Proto-Indo-European*h₁ówHdʰr̥ n(“udder”)
- *ormę /*ormo
- *pasmę /*pasmo
- *polmę /*polmy m
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:-мѧ(-mę),-мꙗ(-mja)
- Old Ruthenian:-мѧ(-mja),-мꙗ(-mja)
- Middle Russian:-мѧ(-mja),-мꙗ(-mja)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script:-мѧ(-mę)
- Glagolitic script:-ⰿⱔ(-mę)
- Bulgarian:-ме(-me)
- Macedonian:-ме(-me)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script:-ме,-мен
- Latin script:-me,-men
- Slovene:-me
- West Slavic:
- Саенко, М. Н. (2019) “Периодизация истории праславянского субстантивного склонения [Periodization of the history of the Proto-Slavic noun declension]”, inБалто-славянские исследования, volume20, Moscow,→DOI, page113
- Herbert Bräuer (1969) “Die n-Stämme”, inSlavische Sprachwissenschaft: Formenlehre, volume 3, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, page23
- Miklosich, Fr. (1875) “116. Suffix men”, inVergleichende grammatik der slavischen sprachen: Stammbildungslehre, volume 2, Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, page236
