Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morčiti

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 *morkъ +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*morčiti

1. to darken

Inflection

Conjugation of *morčiti, *morči, *morčitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*morčenьje	*morčiti	*morčitъ	*morčilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*morčenъ	*morčimъ
Active	*morčь	*morčę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*morčixъ	*morči	*morči	*morčǫ	*morčiši	*morčitь
Dual	*morčixově	*morčista	*morčiste	*morčivě	*morčita	*morčite
Plural	*morčixomъ	*morčiste	*morčišę	*morčimъ	*morčite	*morčętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*morčaaxъ	*morčaaše	*morčaaše	—	*morči	*morči
Dual	*morčaaxově	*morčaašeta	*morčaašete	*morčivě	*morčita	—
Plural	*morčaaxomъ	*morčaašete	*morčaaxǫ	*morčimъ	*morčite	—

Notes:
• (*)*morčivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: морочити (moročiti)
    • Belarusian: маро́чыць (maróčycʹ)
      • (Turov): моро́чыць (moróčycʹ)
    • Russian: моро́чить (moróčitʹ)
    • Ukrainian: моро́чити (moróčyty)
• South Slavic
  • Bulgarian: мрача́ (mračá) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: се мрачи (se mrači), смрачи (smrači)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мра́чити

    Latin script: mráčiti

  • Slovene: mračíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Old Czech: mračiti
    • Czech: mračit
  • Old Polish: mroczyć
    • Polish: mroczyć
  • Slovak: mračiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mróčić
    • Lower Sorbian: mrocyś

Further reading

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