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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

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

See also
  • *bǫbarъ (“beetle; bumblebee”)
  • *bьčela (“bee”)
  • *čьmeľь (“bumblebee”)
  • *komarъ (“mosquito”)
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • *osa (“wasp”)
  • *sьrxy (“hornet”)
  • *trǫtъ (“drone”)
  • *žuža

Derived terms

Descendants

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