Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mozgъ

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *masgás (“marrow; brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós.

Noun

*mȍzgъ or *mòzgъ m[1][2][3]

marrow, brain

Inflection

Declension of *mȍzgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mȍzgъ	*mȍzga	*mȍzdzi
Accusative	*mȍzgъ	*mȍzga	*mȍzgy
Genitive	*mȍzga	*mozgù	*mòzgъ
Locative	*mȍzdzě	*mozgù	*mozdzě̃xъ
Dative	*mȍzgu	*mozgomà	*mozgòmъ
Instrumental	mȍzgъmь, mȍzgomь^*	*mozgomà	*mozgý
Vocative	*moždže	*mȍzga	*mȍzdzi

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

Declension of *mòzgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mòzgъ	*mozgà	*mozdzì
Accusative	*mòzgъ	*mozgà	*mozgỳ
Genitive	*mozgà	*mozgù	*mòzgъ
Locative	*mozdzě̀	*mozgù	*mòzdzěxъ
Dative	*mozgù	*mozgòma	*mozgòmъ
Instrumental	mozgъ̀mь, mozgòmь^*	*mozgòma	*mòzgy
Vocative	*moždže	*mozgà	*mozdzì

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мо́згъ (mózgŭ)
  - Belarusian: мо́зг (mózh), мо́заг (mózah); dial. мазга́ (mazhá) (genitive)
  - Russian: мо́зг (mózg), dial. мoзга́ (mozgá) (genitive)
  - Rusyn: мо́зоґ (mózog)
  - Ukrainian: мо́зок (mózok), dial. мо́зок (mózok), мoзка́ (mozká) (genitive)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: мозгъ (mozgŭ)
  Glagolitic: ⰿⱁⰸⰳⱏ (mozgŭ)
- Bulgarian: мо́зък (mózǎk)
- Macedonian: мозок (mozok)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: мо̏зак
  Latin: mȍzak
  - Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: mo̍zak, mozga̍ (genitive)
- Slovene: mọ̑zəg (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mozk
  - Czech: mozek
    - Moravian (Mistřice): mozg
- Kashubian: mùsk, mùzg
- Polabian: *müzg, müzďĕ (plural)
- Polish: mózg
- Slovak: mozog
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mórzgi
  - Upper Sorbian: mozy

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328: “m. o (c) ‘marrow, brain’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “mozgъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c hjerne (PR 137)”
Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 54, 78, 130

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328: “m. o (c) ‘marrow, brain’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “mozgъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c hjerne (PR 137)”

[3] Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 54, 78, 130