Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mьrsiti

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

Verb

*mьrsìti impf[1] (South Slavic)

  1. to tarnish, to defile
  2. to eat animal or fatty food, to not fast
  3. to tangle

Conjugation

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Church Slavonic: мръсити (mrŭsiti)
      • Bulgarian: мърся́ (mǎrsjá); мъ́рсе̂м (mǎ́rsêm), мъ́рсим / мръ́сим (mǎ́rsim) (dialectal)
      • Macedonian: мрси (mrsi)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: мр́сити
      Latin script: mŕsiti
    • Slovene: mŕsiti (tonal orthography)

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mьrsiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 253