Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morzъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morzъ

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *márźas, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵ-o-s, from *mórǵ-. Cognate with Albanian mardhë f (“frost”).

Noun

*mòrzъ m[1][2][3]

1. frost

Declension

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mòrzъ	*mòrza	*mòrzi
Accusative	*mòrzъ	*mòrza	*mòrzy
Genitive	*mòrza	*mòrzu	*mòrzъ
Locative	*mòrzě	*mòrzu	*mòrzě̄xъ
Dative	*mòrzu	*mòrzoma	*mòrzomъ
Instrumental	*mòrzъmь, *mòrzomь*	*mòrzoma	*mòrzȳ
Vocative	*mòrze	*mòrza	*mòrzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *mьrznǫti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: морозъ (morozŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: моро́зъ (moróz)
      • Belarusian: маро́з (maróz)
      • Rusyn: мо́роз (móroz)
      • Ukrainian: моро́з (moróz); мо́роз (móroz) (Uzhanian dialects and dial. of Slovakia)
    • Russian: моро́з (moróz)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: мразъ (mrazŭ)

  • Bulgarian: мраз (mraz)
  • Macedonian: мраз (mraz)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: мра̏з

    Latin: mrȁz

  • Slovene: mrȁz (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mráz
    • Czech: mráz
  • Kashubian: marz, môrz
  • Polabian: morz
  • Polish: mróz
    • Lesser Polish (Więciórka): mrȯs
  • Slovak: mráz
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: mróz
    • Lower Sorbian: mroz

Further reading

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

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mòrzъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 326: “m. o (a) ‘frost’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “morzъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 211; PR 131; MP 16, 19)”
3. Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch‎, University of Vienna, page 7: “*mőrzъ”