Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/métas

Etymology
Commonly proposed etymologies:
 * From, originally meaning “measure of time”. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and further related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Often compared with synonymous roots , , perhaps all extensions of the instrumental/locative particle.
 * From, originally meaning “harvest, season”. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Derksen favours the first option, while Szemerényi - the second.

Noun

 * 1) time, period
 * 2)  year

Inflection
S-stem, fixed accent.

Descendants

 * East Baltic:
 * West Baltic:
 * Slavic:
 * West Baltic:
 * Slavic:
 * Slavic: