Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/murava

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 *mura, *murъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mauˀras (“mud”).

Noun

*murava f[1]

green, sward (expanse of land covered in dense grass)

Declension

Declension of *murava (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*murava	*muravě	*muravy
genitive	*muravy	*muravu	*muravъ
dative	*muravě	*muravama	*muravamъ
accusative	*muravǫ	*muravě	*muravy
instrumental	muravojǫ, muravǫ^**	*muravama	*muravami
locative	*muravě	*muravu	muravasъ, muravaxъ^*
vocative	*muravo	*muravě	*muravy

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мурава (murava)
  - Belarusian: мурава́ (muravá), му́рава (múrava)
  - Russian: мурава́ (muravá)
  - Ukrainian: мурава́ (muravá)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: мура́ва (muráva) (dialectal), мора́ва (moráva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: му̀рава (archaic)
  
  Latin script: mùrava (archaic)
- Slovene: muráva (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Polish: murawa
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: mùrawa

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*murava”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 192