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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mošьna
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mak-s-in-eh₂. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian makšnà (“case”), Old Prussian dantimax (“gums”). Further cognates with Old High German mago (“stomach”).
Noun
*mošьnà f[1][2]
- small bag
- purse
Declension
Declension of *mošьnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *mošьnà | *mošь̀ně | *mošьnỳ |
| Accusative | *mošьnǫ̀ | *mošь̀ně | *mošьnỳ |
| Genitive | *mošьnỳ | *mošьnù | *mošь̀nъ |
| Locative | *mošьně̀ | *mošьnù | *mošьnàsъ, *mošьnàxъ* |
| Dative | *mošьně̀ | *mošьnàma | *mošьnàmъ |
| Instrumental | *mošьnòjǫ, *mošь̀nǫ** | *mošьnàma | *mošьnàmī |
| Vocative | *mošьno | *mošь̀ně | *mošьnỳ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: мошна́ (mošná)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мошьна (mošĭna)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мо̏шња
- Latin: mȍšnja
- Chakavian (Orbanići): mȍšnja
- Slovene: móšnjа (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: mošna
- Moravian (Mistřice): mošňa
- Polish: moszna
- Slovak: mošna
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: mоšеń
- Lower Sorbian: mоšуnа
- Czech: mošna
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “мошна́”, 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), “*mošьna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327: “f. ā ‘small bag, purse’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “mošьna mošьny”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b taske (PR 135)”