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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mozgъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *masgas, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos (“marrow, brain”). Compare Persian مغز‎ (mağz, “brain”).

Noun

*mȍzgъ m [1][2]

  1. 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.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мозгъ (mozgŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: мозгъ (mozgŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰿⱁⰸⰳⱏ (mozgŭ)
    • Bulgarian: мо́зък (mózǎk)
    • Macedonian: мозок (mozok)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: мо̏зак
      Latin: mȍzak
    • Slovene: mọ̑zəg (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References
  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)”
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