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

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’”

[1] 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’”

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