Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mauˀras

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

According to Martirosyan,[1] belongs with Old Armenian մաւր (mawr, “mud, marsh, swamp”) and perhaps մուր (mur, “soot”) and together with them may be treated as a European substrate word. According to Rejzek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mewr-.[2]

Noun

*mauˀras m[3]

  1. mud

Inflection

Declension of *mauˀras (o-stem, unknown accent)
singular dual plural
nominative *mauˀras *mauˀrōˀ *mauˀrai(ˀ)
accusative *mauˀran *mauˀrōˀ *mauˀrō(ˀ)ns
genitive *mauˀrā *mauˀrāu(ˀ) *mauˀrōn
locative *mauˀrai *mauˀrāu(ˀ) *mauˀraišu
dative *mauˀrōi *mauˀramā(ˀ) *mauˀramas
instrumental *mauˀrōˀ *mauˀramāˀ *mauˀrōis
vocative *mauˀre *mauˀrōˀ *mauˀrai(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: maura
    • Latvian: maurs
    • Lithuanian: máuras, maurai̇̃
  • Proto-Slavic: *murъ

References

  1. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2009), “Armenian mawr ‘mud, marsh’ and its hydronimical value”, in Aramazd: Armenian journal of Near Eastern studies‎[1], volume 4, number 1, pages 73–85 and 179–180
  2. ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007), “mour”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*murъ I; *mura”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 331: “*mouʔros”
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