Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xmara

Etymology

 * Per Vasmer, Trubachev (ESSJa): From contamination of original and  or . The former is sometimes compared with 🇨🇬.
 * Per Gudkov (EIRJa): From dissimilation of an earlier / → →, cognate with 🇨🇬.
 * If the original meaning of the word was more concerned with the shape rather than with the hue of the cloud (as in < ), then possibly from an ō-grade of . Compare 🇨🇬.
 * If the original meaning of the word was more concerned with the shape rather than with the hue of the cloud (as in < ), then possibly from an ō-grade of . Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) dusky, dark billow
 * 2) dark cloud
 * 3) incoherent mass → swarm (of insects), covey (of birds), crowd (of people)
 * 1) incoherent mass → swarm (of insects), covey (of birds), crowd (of people)

Descendants

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