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
Noun
*morà f[1]
- nightly spirit
- nightmare
Declension
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
- East Slavic:
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=. (dialectal)
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=. (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: [Term?]
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=. (dialectal)
- Slovak: mora, mura (“demonical creature that torments people in their sleep”)
- Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=. (dialectal)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*morà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 324: “f. ā ‘nightly spirit, nightmare’”