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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moľь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *molH-(y)o-. Cognate with Old Norse mǫlr.
Noun
*moľь m[1]
- moth
Inflection
Declension of *moľь (soft o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *moľь | *moľa | *moľi |
| Accusative | *moľь | *moľa | *moľę̇ |
| Genitive | *moľa | *moľu | *moľь |
| Locative | *moľi | *moľu | *moľixъ |
| Dative | *moľu | *moľema | *moľemъ |
| Instrumental | *moľьmь, *moľemь* | *moľema | *moľi |
| Vocative | *moľu | *moľa | *moľi |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: моль (molĭ)
- Belarusian: моль (molʹ)
- Russian: моль (molʹ)
- Ukrainian: міль (milʹ)
- Old East Slavic: моль (molĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: моль (molĭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⱁⰾⱐ (molĭ)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: моле́ц (moléc)
- ⇒ Macedonian: молец (molec)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мо̀љац
- Latin: móljac
- Slovene: mòlj
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: mol
- Polish: mól
- Slovak: moľ
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mól
- Upper Sorbian: mól
- → Hungarian: moly
- → Romanian: molie
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “моль”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*moļь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323: “m. jo ‘moth’”