Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mosędzь

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 earlier *mosęgъ, derived from Proto-West Germanic *massing, from Latin massa (“mass, bulk (of material)”) (compare Middle English masse (“chunk; mass of minerals, ingot”)), from Ancient Greek μᾶζᾰ (mâza, “lump, mass”).

Less likely Germanic term derives from Μοσσῡ́νοικοι (Mossū́noikoi, “Mossynoeci”).

The technical word for brass in South Slavic languages (e.g. Serbo-Croatian мѐсинг／mèsing) is a later borrowing German Messing.

Noun

*mosędzь m^[1]^[2]^[3]

(West Slavic) brass (alloy)

Declension

Declension of *mosędzь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mosędzь	*mosędza	*mosędzi
genitive	*mosędza	*mosędzu	*mosędzь
dative	*mosędzu	*mosędzema	*mosędzemъ
accusative	*mosędzь	*mosędza	*mosędzę̇
instrumental	mosędzьmь, mosędzemь^*	*mosędzema	*mosędzi
locative	*mosędzi	*mosędzu	*mosędzixъ
vocative	*mosęže	*mosędza	*mosędzi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mosaz m or f
  - Czech: mosaz f
- Old Polish: mosiądz
  - → Old Ruthenian: мосїондзъ (mosjondz), мосюндзъ (mosjundz), мосендзъ (mosendz), мосенцъ (mosencʹ), мосꙗзъ (mosjaz)
    - Belarusian: мосенз (mósjenz), мосанз (mósanz)
    - → Lithuanian: (dialectal) mãsendzis
    - ⇒ Old Ruthenian: мосѧжъ (mosjaž)
      - Belarusian: мосенж (mósjenž)
      - Ukrainian: мося́ж (mosjáž), мо́сінж (mósinž), муся́нж (musjánž)
  - Polish: mosiądz
    - → Kashubian: mòsądz
  - Silesian: mosiōndz
- Old Slovak: mosadz m or f
  - Slovak: mosadz f
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: mòsąg
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mósez
  - Upper Sorbian: mosaz

References

^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “mosiądz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 337
^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “mosaz”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 407
^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “mosadz”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 369

Schuster-Šewc, Heinz (1984) “mosaz”, in Historisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der ober- und niedersorbischen Sprache [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Upper and Lower Sorbian Language] (in German), numbers 13 (mjetło – njedara), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, →ISBN, page 954
Machek, Václav (1968) “mosaz”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 374
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “мосяж”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “Мосенж”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
Guus Kroonen (2013) “masjinga”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356

[1] Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “mosiądz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 337

[2] Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “mosaz”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 407

[3] Králik, Ľubor (2016) “mosadz”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 369

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