Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъrgati

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *murˀg-, *mirˀg-, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥gʷ- or *mr̥Hgʷ-, from the root *mergʷ- or *merHgʷ-. Cognate with Lithuanian mirgė́ti (to twinkle) (3sg. mìrga), Latvian mir̂dzêt (to twinkle), Old Norse myrkr (dark) (acc. myrkvan).

Verb

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*mъrgati impf[1]

  1. to blink, to wink

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “морга́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъrgati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 237

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mъrgati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 335:v. ‘blink, wink’
  2. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “mrholit”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 434