weak slow (adj.) 1 realization
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Cognates
Language 1 Czech
Language 2 Russian
Lexeme 1 mdlý
Lexeme 2 медленный (medlennyj)
Meaning 1 weak, sluggish
Direction
Meaning 2 slow
Reference Fasmer 1986: 2, 590-591
Comment Church Slavonic. мъдлъ, мьдлъ ‘slow’, ‘sluggish’ (βραδύς, νωθρός), мъдльнъ, мьдльнъ ‘slow’, (βραδύς), Old East Slavic, Russian Church Slavonic медленный, мъдьльныи ‘slow, inert; sluggish’, Serbo-Croatian obsolete madal ‘turbid, unclear, dark’, dialect mlêdan, mleden ‘scraggy, skinny, lean, thin; tasteless’, Slovene medèl, medâl, mádel ‘weak, sluggish; scraggy, skinny, lean, thin’, medlên ‘weak; cloudy, dull’, mléden ‘lean, thin; tasteless’, Old Czech mdlý ‘weak’, Czech‘tired, weak, sluggish; barely noticeable, inexpressive’, dialect ‘dim (light)’, ‘tasteless’, Slovak mdlý ‘tired, weak, inexpressive, dim’, Lower Sorbian medly ‘feeble, powerless, dead’, rare, obsolete módły ‘feeble, powerless, tired, dead’, Old Polish mdły, mgły ‘weak, feeble, powerless, lean, thin’, Polish mdły, dialect medły ‘weak, feeble, emaciated, poor, wretched, unclear, misty’, metłi ‘tasteless’, Slovincian mdlï ‘tasteless, unsalted’, medły, me͂dlï ‘weak, sluggish, fainting’. ESSJa 20, 210-211