Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъrky

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

Of uncertain cognateship to Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“wild carrot”).

Noun edit

*mъrkỳ f^[1]^[2]^[3]

carrot (Daucus carota)

Declension edit

Declension of *mъrkỳ (v-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mъrkỳ	*mъrkъ̀vi	*mъrkъ̀vi
genitive	*mъrkъ̀ve	*mъrkъ̀vu	*mъrkъ̀vъ
dative	*mъrkъ̀vi	mъrkъ̀vьma, mъrkъ̀vama^*	mъrkъ̀vьmъ, mъrkъ̀vamъ^*
accusative	*mъrkъ̀vь	*mъrkъ̀vi	*mъrkъ̀vi
instrumental	mъrkъ̀vьjǫ, mъrkъ̀vľǭ^**	mъrkъ̀vьma, mъrkъ̀vama^*	mъrkъ̀vьmī, mъrkъ̀vamī^*
locative	*mъrkъ̀ve	*mъrkъ̀vu	mъrkъ̀vьxъ, mъrkъ̀vaxъ^*
vocative	*mъrkỳ	*mъrkъ̀vi	*mъrkъ̀vi

^* -ьmъ/etc. are the original consonant-stem endings, while -amъ/etc. are later Common Slavic endings formed by analogy with a-stems.
^** 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).

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: мо́рква (mórkva)
- Russian: морко́вь (morkóvʹ), морко́вка (morkóvka) (colloquial), морква́ (morkvá) (dialectal), мо́рква (mórkva) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: мо́рква (mórkva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: мръкꙑ (mrŭky)
- Bulgarian: мо́рков (mórkov)
- Macedonian: мо́рков (mórkov)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: мр̏ква
  
  Latin script: mȑkva
- Slovene: mŕkəv, mŕkva (tonal orthography) (both dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Czech: mrkev
- Kashubian: marchiew, marchew
- Old Polish: marchew, marchwa
  - Polish: marchew, marchewka, morkwa (dialectal) ^[4]
- Slovak: mrkva
- Slovincian: marchy
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: morchej
  - Lower Sorbian: marchwej

→ Crimean Tatar: markof
→ Lithuanian: morka
→ Romanian: morcov
→ Hungarian: murok (regional)
→ Southern Altai: моркоп (morkop)
→ Yakut: моркуоп (morkuop)

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mъrky”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 335: “f. ū ‘carrot’”
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъrky”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 247
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “mъrky, A. mъrkъvь, G. mъrkъve”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b carrot (NA 130, 142; SA 22; PR 134)”
^ Brasławszczyzna w: Słownictwo kresowe: studia i materiały, red. Janusz Rieger, s. 385, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo „DiG”, 2008, ISBN 83–7181–499–2.

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mъrky”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 335: “f. ū ‘carrot’”

[2] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъrky”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 247

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001) “mъrky, A. mъrkъvь, G. mъrkъve”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b carrot (NA 130, 142; SA 22; PR 134)”

[4] Brasławszczyzna w: Słownictwo kresowe: studia i materiały, red. Janusz Rieger, s. 385, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo „DiG”, 2008, ISBN 83–7181–499–2.

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