Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moľь

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 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
genitive	*moľa	*moľu	*moľь
dative	*moľu	*moľema	*moľemъ
accusative	*moľь	*moľa	*moľę̇
instrumental	*moľьmь, *moľemь*	*moľema	*moľi
locative	*moľi	*moľu	*moľixъ
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)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: моль (molĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱁⰾⱐ (molĭ)

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: моле́ц (moléc)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: молец (molec)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мо̀љац

    Latin script: móljac

  • Slovene: mòlj
• 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 Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress