"muxa" meaning in Proto-Slavic

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Noun

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. Etymology templates: {{inh|sla-pro|ine-bsl-pro|*máušāˀ}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *máušāˀ, {{inh|sla-pro|ine-pro||*mows-eh₂}} Proto-Indo-European *mows-eh₂, {{cog|lt|mùsė}} Lithuanian mùsė, {{cog|lv|muša}} Latvian muša, {{cog|la|musca}} Latin musca, {{cog|grc|μυῖα}} Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa), {{cog|de|Mücke}} German Mücke, {{cog|en|midge}} English midge Inflection templates: {{sla-decl-noun|mùxa|ap=a}} Forms: mùxa [canonical, feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], mùxa [nominative, singular], mùśě [dual, nominative], mùxy [nominative, plural], mùxy [genitive, singular], mùxu [dual, genitive], mùxъ [genitive, plural], mùśě [dative, singular], mùxama [dative, dual], mùxamъ [dative, plural], mùxǫ [accusative, singular], mùśě [accusative, dual], mùxy [accusative, plural], mùxojǫ [instrumental, singular], mùxǭ [instrumental, singular], mùxama [dual, instrumental], mùxamī [instrumental, plural], mùśě [locative, singular], mùxu [dual, locative], mùxasъ [locative, plural], mùxaxъ [locative, plural], mùxo [singular, vocative], mùśě [dual, vocative], mùxy [plural, vocative]
  1. fly Wikipedia link: Rick Derksen Tags: reconstruction Derived forms: mušica, mъšica Related terms: bǫbarъ (english: beetle; bumblebee), bьčela (english: bee), čьmeľь (english: bumblebee), komarъ (english: mosquito), muxa (english: fly), osa (english: wasp), sьrxy (english: hornet), trǫtъ (english: drone), žuža
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "моуха"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "ⰿⱆⱈⰰ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "muhá",
          "word": "муха́"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "muva",
          "word": "мува"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "му̀ха"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "му̀ва"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "word": "mùha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "word": "mùva"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Czech",
              "lang_code": "cs",
              "word": "moucha"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Czech",
          "lang_code": "zlw-ocs",
          "word": "múcha"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Slovak",
              "lang_code": "sk",
              "word": "mucha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
              "lang_code": "rsk",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "муха"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Slovak",
          "lang_code": "zlw-osk",
          "word": "mucha"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polabian",
          "lang_code": "pox",
          "word": "mauxo"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "mucha"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kashubian",
          "lang_code": "csb",
          "word": "mùcha"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "hsb",
              "word": "mucha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "dsb",
              "word": "mucha"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Sorbian",
          "lang_code": "unknown"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*máušāˀ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *máušāˀ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*mows-eh₂"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mows-eh₂",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "mùsė"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian mùsė",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "muša"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian muša",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "musca"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin musca",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "μυῖα"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Mücke"
      },
      "expansion": "German Mücke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "midge"
      },
      "expansion": "English midge",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mùxa",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxamъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxǫ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxojǫ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxǭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxamī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxasъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxaxъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mùxa",
        "ap": "a"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/muxa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm a",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mušica"
        },
        {
          "word": "mъšica"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fly"
      ],
      "id": "en-muxa-sla-pro-noun-9N69t6t9",
      "links": [
        [
          "fly",
          "fly"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "beetle; bumblebee",
          "translation": "beetle; bumblebee",
          "word": "bǫbarъ"
        },
        {
          "english": "bee",
          "translation": "bee",
          "word": "bьčela"
        },
        {
          "english": "bumblebee",
          "translation": "bumblebee",
          "word": "čьmeľь"
        },
        {
          "english": "mosquito",
          "translation": "mosquito",
          "word": "komarъ"
        },
        {
          "english": "fly",
          "translation": "fly",
          "word": "muxa"
        },
        {
          "english": "wasp",
          "translation": "wasp",
          "word": "osa"
        },
        {
          "english": "hornet",
          "translation": "hornet",
          "word": "sьrxy"
        },
        {
          "english": "drone",
          "translation": "drone",
          "word": "trǫtъ"
        },
        {
          "word": "žuža"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rick Derksen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muxa"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mušica"
    },
    {
      "word": "mъšica"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "múxa",
          "word": "му́ха"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "моуха"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "ⰿⱆⱈⰰ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "muhá",
          "word": "муха́"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "muva",
          "word": "мува"
        },
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "му̀ха"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "му̀ва"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "word": "mùha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "word": "mùva"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Czech",
              "lang_code": "cs",
              "word": "moucha"
            }
          ],
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          "lang_code": "zlw-ocs",
          "word": "múcha"
        },
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Slovak",
              "lang_code": "sk",
              "word": "mucha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
              "lang_code": "rsk",
              "roman": "muxa",
              "word": "муха"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Slovak",
          "lang_code": "zlw-osk",
          "word": "mucha"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polabian",
          "lang_code": "pox",
          "word": "mauxo"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "mucha"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kashubian",
          "lang_code": "csb",
          "word": "mùcha"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "hsb",
              "word": "mucha"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "dsb",
              "word": "mucha"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Sorbian",
          "lang_code": "unknown"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*máušāˀ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *máušāˀ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*mows-eh₂"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "mùsė"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian mùsė",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "muša"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian muša",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "musca"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin musca",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "μυῖα"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Mücke"
      },
      "expansion": "German Mücke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "midge"
      },
      "expansion": "English midge",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mùxa",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxamъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxǫ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxojǫ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxǭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxamī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxasъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxaxъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùśě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mùxy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mùxa",
        "ap": "a"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/muxa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "beetle; bumblebee",
      "translation": "beetle; bumblebee",
      "word": "bǫbarъ"
    },
    {
      "english": "bee",
      "translation": "bee",
      "word": "bьčela"
    },
    {
      "english": "bumblebee",
      "translation": "bumblebee",
      "word": "čьmeľь"
    },
    {
      "english": "mosquito",
      "translation": "mosquito",
      "word": "komarъ"
    },
    {
      "english": "fly",
      "translation": "fly",
      "word": "muxa"
    },
    {
      "english": "wasp",
      "translation": "wasp",
      "word": "osa"
    },
    {
      "english": "hornet",
      "translation": "hornet",
      "word": "sьrxy"
    },
    {
      "english": "drone",
      "translation": "drone",
      "word": "trǫtъ"
    },
    {
      "word": "žuža"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Slavic feminine nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic hard a-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic lemmas",
        "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm a",
        "Proto-Slavic nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "sla-pro:Dipterans"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fly",
          "fly"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rick Derksen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muxa"
}

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