Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/marěna

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

*marěna

Etymology

Unknown. Perchance related to *marati (“to stain, to sully”). It might be a substrate word spread from Poland and only late, while comparisons with other Indo-European words are difficult and prone to chance correspondence. However it has terminally ousted the other Slavic word for madder, *broščь, by the end of the Early Modern Age.

Noun

*marěna m

madder (Rubia tinctorum)
Synonym: *bròščь

Inflection

Declension of *marěna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*marěna	*marěně	*marěny
Accusative	*marěnǫ	*marěně	*marěny
Genitive	*marěny	*marěnu	*marěnъ
Locative	*marěně	*marěnu	marěnasъ, marěnaxъ^*
Dative	*marěně	*marěnama	*marěnamъ
Instrumental	marěnojǫ, marěnǭ^**	*marěnama	*marěnamī
Vocative	*marěno	*marěně	*marěny

^* -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).

Descendants