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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mogyla
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Proto-Slavic
*pogrebalьna(ja) *mogyla (sketch)
Alternative forms
- *gomyla
Etymology
Probably from a substrate language, akin to Albanian gamulë, magulë and Romanian movilă, moghilă, măgură, măgulă, Aromanian mãgulã. Miklošič, Brückner (followed by Vasmer et al.) however do not exclude an autochthonous origin akin to Proto-Slavic *moťьje pl (“relics, holy remains”) (from an earlier *mogtьje).
Per St. Mladenov, if the regional metathesized forms reflecting *gomyla are primary, a descent from Proto-Indo-European *gem- (“to seize, to take hold, to squeeze”) could also be possible. The later forms may have been influenced by Proto-Slavic *gomola (“lump, clod”), though. Compare Lithuanian gãmalas, gãmulas m (“chunk”), gamulà f (“bulge”).
Noun
*mogỳla f[1][2]
- hill, mound
- burial mound, kurgan
Declension
Declension of *mogyla (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *mogyla | *mogylě | *mogyly |
| Accusative | *mogylǫ | *mogylě | *mogyly |
| Genitive | *mogyly | *mogylu | *mogylъ |
| Locative | *mogylě | *mogylu | *mogylasъ, *mogylaxъ* |
| Dative | *mogylě | *mogylama | *mogylamъ |
| Instrumental | *mogylojǫ, *mogylǭ** | *mogylama | *mogylamī |
| Vocative | *mogylo | *mogylě | *mogyly |
* -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).
Derived terms
- *mogylistъ (“hillocky”)
- *mogylьnъ (“burial”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: могꙑла (mogyla)
- Belarusian: магі́ла (mahíla)
- Russian: моги́ла (mogíla)
- Ukrainian: моги́ла (mohýla)
- Old East Slavic: могꙑла (mogyla)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: могꙑла (mogyla)
- → Bulgarian: моги́ла (mogíla)
- Bulgarian: гоми́ла (gomíla) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: мо́гила (mógila)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: го̀мила (with metathesis)
- Latin: gòmila (with metathesis)
- Slovene: gomíla (tonal orthography) (with metathesis)
- Old Church Slavonic: могꙑла (mogyla)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: mohyla
- Polabian: müďålă
- Polish: mogiła
- Slovak: mohyla
- Non-Slavic:
- → Lithuanian: mogila
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “могила”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mogyla”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 115
- Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “могила”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 196
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “mogyla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 155; PR 132)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “gomila”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “iz *mogy̋la”