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

Etymology

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Noun

*moľь m

1. moth

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: моль (molĭ)
  • Belarusian: моль (molʹ)
  • Russian: моль (molʹ)
  • Ukrainian: міль (milʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: моль (molĭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: моле́ц (moléc)
  • Macedonian: молец (molec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: мо̀љац

    Latin: móljac

  • Slovenian: mòlj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: mol
  • Polish: mól
  • Slovak: moľ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mól
    • Upper Sorbian: mól

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 323
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “моль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress