Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pomoťь

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

Etymology

From *po- +‎ *moťь (“might, capability”).

Noun

*pomoťь f

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Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: по́мач (pómač)
- Russian: по́мочь (pómočʹ)
- Rusyn: по́моч (pómoč), по́міч (pómič), помӱч (pomüč)
- Ukrainian: по́міч (pómič)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: помощь (pomoštĭ)
- Bulgarian: по́мощ (pómošt)
  - → Russian: по́мощь (pómoščʹ)
- Macedonian: помош (pomoš)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: по̏мо̄ћ
  Latin: pȍmōć
- Slovene: pomóč
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pomoc
  - Czech: pomoc
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): pomoc
- Polish: pomoc
- Silesian: půmoc
- Slovak: pomoc
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: pomoc
  - Lower Sorbian: pomoc

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “по́мочь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress