Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/merža

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/merža

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

Compare Ancient Greek μέρμις (mérmis, “rope, cord”), Westrobothnian meel (“fishing net”), Latvian mer̂ga, and possibly Lithuanian márška (“fishing net”).[1]

Noun

*mèrža f[2][3]

1. net

Declension

Declension of *mèrža (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mèrža	*mèrži	*mèržę̇
Accusative	*mèržǫ	*mèrži	*mèržę̇
Genitive	*mèržę̇	*mèržu	*mèržь
Locative	*mèržī	*mèržu	*mèržāsъ
Dative	*mèržī	*mèržama	*mèržāmъ
Instrumental	*mèržējǫ, *mèržǭ*	*mèržama	*mèržāmī
Vocative	*mèrže	*mèrži	*mèržę̇

^* 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:
  • Belarusian: мярэ́жа (mjaréža)
  • Russian: мерёжа (merjóža), мере́жа (meréža)
  • Ukrainian: мере́жа (meréža)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: мрѣжа (mrěža)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

    • → Russian: мре́жа (mréža)
  • Bulgarian: мре́жа (mréža), мря́жа (mrjáža) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: мрежа (mreža)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: мре̏жа

    Latin: mrȅža

  • Slovene: mrẹ́ža (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mřiežě
    • Czech: mříž
  • Polish: mrzeża (archaic)
  • Slovak: mreža

Further reading

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

References

1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2084
2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mèrža”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308: “f. jā (a) ‘net’”
3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “meržja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 155)”