мошка
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mъši. Related to му́ха (múxa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]мо́шка • (móška) f anim (genitive мо́шки, nominative plural мо́шки, genitive plural мо́шек)
- midge (a kind of gnat or gnatlike fly)
- 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 11”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
- Ла́сточки лета́ли высоко́; ве́тер совсе́м за́мер; запозда́лые пчё́лы лени́во и сонли́во жужжа́ли в цвета́х сире́ни; мо́шки толкли́сь столбо́м над одино́кою, далеко́ протя́нутою ве́ткою.
- Lástočki letáli vysokó; véter sovsém zámer; zapozdályje pčóly lenívo i sonlívo žužžáli v cvetáx siréni; móški tolklísʹ stolbóm nad odinókoju, dalekó protjánutoju vétkoju.
- The swallows flew high; the wind had quite died down, some late bees hummed lazily among the lilac blossoms, a swarm of midges hung like a cloud over a solitary branch which stood out against the sky.
Declension
[edit]Declension of мо́шка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Pre-reform declension of мо́шка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Descendants
[edit]- → Votic: moškõ
See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]мошка́ • (mošká) f inan (genitive мошки́, nominative plural *мошки́, genitive plural *мошо́к)
Declension
[edit]Declension of мошка́ (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-b reduc)
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “мошка”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
- See: Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “моха”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
- мошка in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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