Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mora
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), possibly from *mor-, *mer- (“to die”), see also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), English nightmare.[1]
Noun
[edit]*morà f[2]
Declension
[edit]Declension of *mora (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *mora | *morě | *mory |
| genitive | *mory | *moru | *morъ |
| dative | *morě | *morama | *moramъ |
| accusative | *morǫ | *morě | *mory |
| instrumental | *morojǫ, *morǫ** | *morama | *morami |
| locative | *morě | *moru | *morasъ, *moraxъ* |
| vocative | *moro | *morě | *mory |
* -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).
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script: мора (mora)
- Glagolitic script: [Term?]
- → Romanian: moroi (“spirit”)
- Bulgarian: мора (mora, “nightmare”)
- Macedonian: мо́ра (móra, “nightmare”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Chakavian (Orbanići): Morȁ (“personified nightmare, female phantom”)
- Slovene: móra (“nightmare, owl”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: móra (“nightmare, mythological creature that suffocates people in their sleep”), mora (“moth”)
- Czech: můra (“nightmare, mythological creature that suffocates people in their sleep, moth”)
- Polish: mora (“nightly spirit that attacks people and horses in their sleep, nightly apparition, nightmare”) (dialectal)
- Slovak: mora, mura (“demonical creature that torments people in their sleep”)
- Old Czech: móra (“nightmare, mythological creature that suffocates people in their sleep”), mora (“moth”)
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mare”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*morà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 324: “f. ā ‘nightly spirit, nightmare’”