MEAT

In satem languages in this word after an initial "M" there always appears a nasal sound either "en", "an" or "am".

In Romance languages the Indo-European word for meat has been lost, but it was kept in the names of a "butcher" and a "slaughterhouse" namely "macellārius" and when transformed to "masellārius" it creates a word for meat that is "mase". That S instead of K is still present in Romansch as "mazler".

Old Armenian "միս (mis)", Albanian "mish" and Tocharian B "misa" could all suggest the appearance of this word as "mis" during the earliest Indo-European migrations and connected to R1b haplogroup. Then those R1b males travelled to Ireland and S was changed to R creating "mir". Just like Proto-Germanic ending of the nominative "-as" "-az" changed to "-ar" and then to "-R". This is a very similar case to that of HEART or HUNDRED in Lycian, Tocharian and Celtic languages.

MES-

Old Church Slavonic: мѧсо (męso)

Polish: mięso

Old Prussian: menso

Crimean Gothic: menus

Latvian: miesa ("muscle")

Lithuanian: mėsa

Bulgarian: месо́ (mesó)

Macedonian: месо (meso)

Serbo-Croatian: ме̑со, mȇso

Lower Sorbian: měso

Slovene: meso

MEH-

Polish: mięcho ("a big piece of meat")

MAS-

Hindi: माँस (mā̃s)

Nepali: मासु (māsu)

Sinhalese: මස් (mas)

Urdu: مانس‎ (mā̃s)

Upper Sorbian: mjaso

Kashubian: miãso

Russian: мя́со (mjáso)

Rusyn: мнясо (mnjaso)

Ukrainian: м'я́со (m'jáso)

Belarusian: мя́са (mjása)

Czech: maso

Slovak: mäso

Polish: masarz ("butcher")

Romansch: mazler ("butcher")

MHA-

Palula (Dardic): mhaasá

MAMS- MANS-

---> Malayalam: മാംസം (māṃsaṃ)

---> Telugu: మాంసము (māṃsamu)

Sanskrit: मांस (māṃsá)

Polabian: mąsǘ

Hindi: मांस (māns)

Bengali: মাংস (mangs)

MANU-

Polabian Drevani: manugsi

MAH- MANH-

---> Mongolian: мах (mah)

---> Kalmyk: махн (mahn)

---> Buryat: мяхан (mjahan)

Assamese: মাংস (maṅho, mankho)

-MANKH

Rajasthani: अमंख (amãṅkh)

MAK-

Latin: macellārius ("butcher or meat seller")

Italian: macello ("slaughterhouse")

Romanian: măcelar ("butcher")

Ancient Greek: μάκελλον (mákellon), μάκελλος (mákellos) ("slaughterhouse")

MIS-

Old Armenian: միս (mis)

Albanian: mish

Tocharian B: misa

MIR-

Old Irish: mír

Irish: mír

Scottish Gaelic: mìr

MIMZ

Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz)

MON-

Assamese: মঙহ (moṅoh)

MAMI-

---> Tamil: மாமிசம் (māmicam)

Article created on the 7th of April 2019.