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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/močiti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mak-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian makõnė (“mud”), dialectal Lithuanian mokė (“big quagmire”), mokas (“thick mud”). Indo-European cognates include Old Armenian մօր (mōr, “mud, marsh”). Vasmer suggests a further cognate with Old Irish móin (“swamp, marsh”) and Trubachev additionally gives Albanian makë (“glue, liquid film”).
Verb
*močìti impf[1][2]
- to wet
Inflection
Conjugation of *močiti, *moči, *močitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *močenьje | *močiti | *močitъ | *močilъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *močenъ | *močimъ |
| Active | *močь | *močę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *močixъ | *moči | *moči | *močǫ | *močiši | *močitь |
| Dual | *močixově | *močista | *močiste | *močivě | *močita | *močite |
| Plural | *močixomъ | *močiste | *močišę | *močimъ | *močite | *močętь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *močaaxъ | *močaaše | *močaaše | — | *moči | *moči |
| Dual | *močaaxově | *močaašeta | *močaašete | *močivě | *močita | — |
| Plural | *močaaxomъ | *močaašete | *močaaxǫ | *močimъ | *močite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*močivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
- *moča, *močь (“wetness, puddle, urine”)
- *mokrъ (“wet, damp”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мочити (močiti)
- Belarusian: мачы́ць (mačýcʹ)
- Russian: мочи́ть (močítʹ)
- Ukrainian: мочи́ти (močýty)
- Old East Slavic: мочити (močiti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мочити (močiti)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: мо́ча (móča)
- Macedonian: моча (moča)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мо̀чити
- Latin: mòčiti
- Chakavian (Vrgada): močȉti
- Chakavian (Orbanići): močȉt
- Slovene: močīti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: močiti
- Czech: močit
- Polabian: mücĕ (3sg.)
- Old Polish: moczyć
- Polish: moczyć
- Slovak: močiť
- Slovincian: mʉ̀ɵ̯čĭc
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: močić
- Lower Sorbian: mócyś
- Old Czech: močiti
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мочи́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, et al., editors (1974–2021), “*močiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*močìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320: “v. (b) ‘wet’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “močiti: močjǫ močitь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b fugte (SA 260; PR 137)”