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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morkъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *markas, from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”), cognate to Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”) and Albanian murg (“dark”).
Noun
*mȏrkъ m[1][2]
- darkness
Declension
Declension of *mȏrkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *mȏrkъ | *mȏrka | *mȏrci |
| Accusative | *mȏrkъ | *mȏrka | *mȏrky |
| Genitive | *mȏrka | *morkù | *mõrkъ |
| Locative | *mȏrcě | *morkù | *morcě̃xъ |
| Dative | *mȏrku | *morkomà | *morkòmъ |
| Instrumental | *mȏrkъmь, *mȏrkomь* | *morkomà | *morký |
| Vocative | *morče | *mȏrka | *mȏrci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *sǫmorkъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: мо́рак (mórak)
- Russian: мо́рок (mórok)
- Ukrainian: мо́рок (mórok)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мракъ (mrakŭ)
- → Russian: мрак (mrak)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱃⰰⰽⱏ (mrakŭ)
- Cyrillic: мракъ (mrakŭ)
- Bulgarian: мрак (mrak)
- Macedonian: мрак (mrak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мра̑к
- Latin: mrȃk
- Slovene: mrȃk (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mrak
- Czech: mrak
- Kashubian: mroch
- Polish: mrok
- → Belarusian: мрок (mrok)
- Slovak: mrak
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mrok
- Old Czech: mrak
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мо́рок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȏrkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 325: “m. o (c) ‘darkness’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “morkъ morka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d (OSA 143; PR 137)”