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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *molH-(y)o-. Cognate with Old Norse mǫlr.

Noun

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*moľь m[1]

  1. moth

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: моль (molĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “моль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*moļь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 323:m. jo ‘moth’