Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/morkъ

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 *markas, from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”), cognate to Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”) and Albanian murg (“dark”).

Noun

*mȏrkъ m

1. darkness

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mȏrkъ	*mȏrka	*mȏrci
genitive	*mȏrka	*morkù	*mõrkъ
dative	*mȏrku	*morkomà	*morkòmъ
accusative	*mȏrkъ	*mȏrka	*mȏrky
instrumental	*mȏrkъmь, *mȏrkomь*	*morkomà	*morký
locative	*mȏrcě	*morkù	*morcě̃xъ
vocative	*morče	*mȏrka	*mȏrci

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

Derived terms

• *sǫmorkъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: мо́рак (mórak)
  • Russian: мо́рок (mórok)
  • Ukrainian: мо́рок (mórok)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Cyrillic: мракъ (mrakŭ)
      • → Russian: мрак (mrak)
    • Glagolitic: ⰿⱃⰰⰽⱏ (mrakŭ)
  • Bulgarian: мрак (mrak)
  • Macedonian: мрак (mrak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мра̑к

    Latin script: mrȃk

  • Slovene: mrȃk (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mrak
    • Czech: mrak
  • Kashubian: mrok
  • Polish: mrok
    • → Belarusian: мрок (mrok)
  • Slovak: mrak
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mrok
    • Upper Sorbian: mrok

Further reading

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