Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morvъ

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 Proto-Indo-European *morwi-.

Noun

*morvъ m

1. ant

Declension

Declension of *morvъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*morvъ	*morva	*morvi
genitive	*morva	*morvu	*morvъ
dative	*morvu	*morvoma	*morvomъ
accusative	*morvъ	*morva	*morvy
instrumental	*morvъmь, *morvomь*	*morvoma	*morvy
locative	*morvě	*morvu	*morvěxъ
vocative	*morve	*morva	*morvi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: мурашка (muraška)
  • Russian: муравей (muravej)
  • Ukrainian: мураха (muraxa)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: мравка (mravka)
  • Macedonian: мра́ва (mráva), ⇒ мра́вка (mrávka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мрав

    Latin script: mrav

  • Slovene: mravlja
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mraven
    • Czech: mravenec
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): bravenec
  • Kashubian: mrówka (< marwa)
  • Polish: mrówka (< mrowa)
  • Slovak: mravec
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: mroja

    Upper Sorbian: mrowja

Further reading

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