Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moriti

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.

By surface analysis, *morъ +‎ *-iti, related to *merti (“to die”).

*morìti impf^[1]

1. to kill (slowly or cruelly)

• *umoriti
• *zamoriti

• *mьrtvъ
• *sъmьrtь

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: мори́ть (morítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: мори́ти (morýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: моря̀ (morjà)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мо̀рити

    Latin script: mòriti

  • Slovene: morīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mořiti
    • Czech: mořit
  • Old Polish: morzyć
    • Polish: morzyć
    • Silesian: morzić (“to clean”)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: môrzëc
  • Old Slovak: moriti
    • Pannonian Rusyn: мориц (moric)
    • Slovak: moriť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: morić
    • Lower Sorbian: móriś

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*moriti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 223
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “морити”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress