мощи

Bulgarian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic мощи pl (mošti), the plural of мощь (moštĭ, “power”). Probably a calque of Byzantine Greek δυνάμεις (dunámeis, “powers, manifestations of sainthood/divinity”).

Noun

мощи • (mošti) f pl

1. (plural only) relics (remnants of a saint's body)

Declension

References

• “мощи”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мощи”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мощи”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 270
• “мощи”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024

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

Derived terms

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, София

Further reading

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

Russian

Pronunciation

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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

Etymology 2

Noun

мо́щи • (móšči) f inan

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