Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/morwi-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European edit

Noun edit

*morwi-

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Descendants edit

Proto-Albanian: *mārwa
- Albanian: morr
Proto-Armenian:
- Old Armenian: մրջիւն (mrǰiwn)
  - Armenian: մրջյուն (mrǰyun)
Proto-Balto-Slavic: *marwis
- Proto-Slavic: *morvь, *morvъ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Celtic: *morwis f^[1]
- Proto-Brythonic:
  - Breton: meryenenn; merion (collective)
  - Cornish: mwrrian
  - Middle Welsh: myr
    - Welsh: mŷr, myrr
- Old Irish: moirb
Proto-Germanic: *mauraz, *miurijǭ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Hellenic: (with assimilation *morwo- > *mormo-)
- Ancient Greek: μύρμηξ (múrmēx) (see there for further descendants)
- Ancient Greek: μύρμος (múrmos)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *marwíš m (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Italic: *mormīkā
- Latin: formīca (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Tocharian:
- Tocharian B: warme

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*morwi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 278

Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 148

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*morwi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 278

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