Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mosędzь
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (West Slavic) brass (alloy)
Declension edit
Declension of *mosędzь (soft o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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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 edit
- West Slavic:
References edit
- ^ 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
Further reading edit
- 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
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “masjinga”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356