mьrknǫti

mьrknǫti Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `become dark'

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Old Church Slavic:

mrьknǫti `become dark, darken' [verb]

Russian:

mérknut' `become dark, become dim, fade' [verb]

Czech:

mrknouti `wink, blink, glimmer' [verb];

mrknouti (Kott) `become dark, screw up one's eyes' [verb]

Old Czech:

mrknúti (sě) `become dark, darken' [verb]

Slovak:

mrknut' `become dark, darken, blink' [verb]

Polish:

mierzchnąć `become dark, darken' [verb]

Slovincian:

mjìe̯řk `twilight' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

mȑknuti `become dark, darken' [verb]

Slovene:

mŕkniti `become dark, darken, blink, wink' [verb], mȓknem [1sg]

Lithuanian:

mérkti `close one's eyes' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: mrHk-

Other cognates:

Go. maurgins `morning'

Notes:

\{1\} According to the Staroslavjanskij slovar', six of the seven attestations actually have mrъk-.