мощи

See also: мошти

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• мошти (mošti)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *moťi, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“be able, capable”). Cognate with English may, Sanskrit मघ (magha, “power”), Persian مغ (“Zoroastrian priest”), Old High German mugan (“be able”).

Verb

мощи • (mošti) pf

1. to be able

Conjugation

present tense of мощи (mošti) singular dual plural азъ (azŭ) тꙑ (ty) тъ (tŭ) вѣ (vě) ва (va) та (ta) мꙑ (my) вꙑ (vy) ти (ti) могѫ (mogǫ) можеши (možeši) можетъ (možetŭ) можевѣ (moževě) можета (možeta) можете (možete) можемъ (možemŭ) можете (možete) могѫтъ (mogǫtŭ)

Derived terms

• изнемощи (iznemošti)
• отънемощи (otŭnemošti)
• помощи (pomošti)
• прѣмощи (prěmošti)
• прѣнемощи (prěnemošti)
• възмощи (vŭzmošti)
• помагати (pomagati)

Noun

мощи • (mošti) f plural of мошть (moštĭ)

1. (religion) relics
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 2919-1921:

     да бѫдетъ проклѧтъ иже свѧтꙑихъ вьсѣхъ не чьтетъ ни кланꙗѥтъ сѧ съ любъвиѭ мощемъ ихъ

     da bǫdetŭ proklętŭ iže svętyixŭ vĭsěxŭ ne čĭtetŭ ni klanjajetŭ sę sŭ ljubŭvijǫ moštemŭ ixŭ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎^[1], София

Further reading

• Koch, Christoph (1990) “§ 53 Konj. I.1a,1b1 (mogǫ mošti)”, in Das morphologische System des altkirchenslavischen Verbums‎^[2] (in German), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, page 597

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Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoɕːɪ]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic мощи (mošti), plural of мошть (moštĭ), from Proto-Slavic *mogťi. Cognate to мощь (moščʹ), мочь (močʹ).

Noun

мо́щи • (móšči) m inan pl (genitive моще́й, plural only)

1. (religion) relics

Declension

Declension of мо́щи (inan pl-only masc-form sibilant-stem accent-e) 

	plural
nominative	мо́щи móšči
genitive	моще́й moščéj
dative	моща́м moščám
accusative	мо́щи móšči
instrumental	моща́ми moščámi
prepositional	моща́х moščáx

Etymology 2

Noun

(deprecated template usage) мо́щи • (móšči) f inan

1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular of мощь (moščʹ)