Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motyľь

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

Noun

*motyľь m

butterfly, moth

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мотꙑль (motylĭ)
  - Old Belarusian: мотыль (motylʹ)[1]
    - Belarusian: маты́ль (matýlʹ)
  - Russian: моты́ль (motýlʹ)
  - Ukrainian: мете́лик (metélyk)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: мети́л (metíl)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: мѐтӣљ
  Latin: mètīlj
  - Chakavian (Orlec): metũj (“certain noxious insect”)
  - Chakavian (Crikvenica): metũlj (“butterfly”)
  - Chakavian (Kukljica): metı̑lj (“butterfly”)
  - Chakavian (Grobnik): metȗj (“butterfly”)
  - Kajkavian (Varaždin): mȩtȗl (“butterfly”)
- Slovene: metúlj (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: motýl
  - Czech: motýl
- Old Polish: motyl
  - Polish: motyl
- Kashubian: mòtil
- Slovak: motýľ
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: mjetel
  - Lower Sorbian: mjatel

Bulyka, A. M., editor (1999), “мотыль”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 18 (местце – надзовати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 174

[1] Bulyka, A. M., editor (1999), “мотыль”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 18 (местце – надзовати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 174