Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/murava

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

Etymology

From *mura, *murъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras (“mud”).

Noun

*murava f

1. green, sward (expanse of land covered in dense grass)

Declension

Declension of *murava (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*murava	*muravě	*muravy
genitive	*muravy	*muravu	*muravъ
dative	*muravě	*muravama	*muravamъ
accusative	*muravǫ	*muravě	*muravy
instrumental	*muravojǫ, *muravǫ**	*muravama	*muravami
locative	*muravě	*muravu	*muravasъ, *muravaxъ*
vocative	*muravo	*muravě	*muravy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мурава (murava)
    • Belarusian: мурава́ (muravá), му́рава (múrava)
    • Russian: мурава́ (muravá)
    • Ukrainian: мурава́ (muravá)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: мура́ва (muráva) (dialectal), мора́ва (moráva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: му̀рава (archaic)

    Latin script: mùrava (archaic)

  • Slovene: muráva (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: murawa
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: mùrawa

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мурава́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress