Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moča

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

Alternative forms

• *močь m

Etymology

From *mok- (“wet”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*moča f

1. wetness, puddle, urine

Inflection

Declension of *moča (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*moča	*moči	*močę̇
genitive	*močę̇	*moču	*močь
dative	*moči	*močama	*močamъ
accusative	*močǫ	*moči	*močę̇
instrumental	*močejǫ, *močǫ**	*močama	*močami
locative	*moči	*moču	*močasъ, *močaxъ*
vocative	*moče	*moči	*močę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

• *močiti
• *mokrъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: моча f (moča)
    • Belarusian: мача (mača)
    • Russian: моча́ f (močá)
    • Ukrainian: міч f (mič)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: моча f (moča), мочь (močĭ)
  • Bulgarian: моч (moč)
  • Macedonian: моч f (moč)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мо́ча f

    Latin script: móča f

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): mȍča
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): mȍča
  • Slovene: moča m
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: moč f
  • Polish: mocz m
  • Slovak: moč m
  • Sorbian
    • Upper Sorbian: moč m

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*moča; močь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 319
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “моча́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress