Mosa
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.
Proper noun edit
Mosa m
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Mosa, from Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā.
Proper noun edit
Mosa ?
- the river Meuse
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (“to stupefy”) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (“to confound, be weary, dream”) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (“to vault, arch”), Old Norse meis (“curvatura”).[1]
Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-, whence Latin madeō (“I am wet”) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, “full”).[2]
Compare also Proto-Germanic *Masō (Dutch Maas), presumably from the same source.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔs̠ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]
- (ablative case): (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.saː/, [ˈmɔs̠äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.sa/, [ˈmɔːs̬ä]
Proper noun edit
Mosa m sg (genitive Mosae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Mosa |
Genitive | Mosae |
Dative | Mosae |
Accusative | Mosam |
Ablative | Mosā |
Vocative | Mosa |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Mosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Mosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Ferguson, Robert (1862): The River-names of Europe, p. 142
- ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) “Maas”, in Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 333b
Maranao edit
Proper noun edit
Mosa
Portuguese edit
Proper noun edit
Mosa m
- Meuse (a river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mosa m
- Meuse (a river in France)
- Meuse (a department of France)