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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/muxa

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 *máušāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *mows-eh₂, from *mows-, *mus-, *mew-. Cognate with Lithuanian mùsė, dialectal musià, Latvian muša, Latin musca, Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa), German Mücke, English midge.

Noun

*mùxa f[1][2]

  1. fly

Declension
Declension of *mùxa (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *mùxa *mùśě *mùxy
genitive *mùxy *mùxu *mùxъ
dative *mùśě *mùxama *mùxamъ
accusative *mùxǫ *mùśě *mùxy
instrumental *mùxojǫ, *mùxǭ** *mùxama *mùxamī
locative *mùśě *mùxu *mùxasъ, *mùxaxъ*
vocative *mùxo *mùśě *mùxy
* -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).

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Descendants

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

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mùxa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 330: “f. ā (a) ‘fly’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “muxa”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (RPT 107, 110)”
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