Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъrgoda
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
*mъrgati (“to smirk”) + *-oda
Noun edit
*mъrgoda f[1]
- scowl (facial gesture of displeasure or disapproval)
Declension edit
Declension of *mъrgoda (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *mъrgoda | *mъrgodě | *mъrgody |
genitive | *mъrgody | *mъrgodu | *mъrgodъ |
dative | *mъrgodě | *mъrgodama | *mъrgodamъ |
accusative | *mъrgodǫ | *mъrgodě | *mъrgody |
instrumental | *mъrgodojǫ, *mъrgodǫ** | *mъrgodama | *mъrgodami |
locative | *mъrgodě | *mъrgodu | *mъrgodasъ, *mъrgodaxъ* |
vocative | *mъrgodo | *mъrgodě | *mъrgody |
* -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).
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- South Slavic:
References edit
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “morgoditi”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “izpeljano iz *mъrgoda”
Further reading edit
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъrgoda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 239