Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/muxa
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *máušāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *mows-eh₂, from *mows-, *mus-, *mew-. Cognate with Lithuanian mùsė, dialectal musià, Latvian muša, Latin musca, Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa), German Mücke, English midge.
Noun edit
Declension edit
Declension of *mùxa (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *mùxa | *mùśě | *mùxy |
genitive | *mùxy | *mùxu | *mùxъ |
dative | *mùśě | *mùxama | *mùxamъ |
accusative | *mùxǫ | *mùśě | *mùxy |
instrumental | *mùxojǫ, *mùxǭ** | *mùxama | *mùxamī |
locative | *mùśě | *mùxu | *mùxasъ, *mùxaxъ* |
vocative | *mùxo | *mùśě | *mùxy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
See also edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “му́ха”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mùxa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 330: “f. ā (a) ‘fly’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “muxa”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (RPT 107, 110)”