Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Mokošь

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.

From *moky (“wetland”) +‎ *-ošь, literally “she who is wet”.^[1]

*Mokošь f^[2]

1. Mokosh (Slavic goddess of earth and fate)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: Мокошь (Mokošĭ), Мокашь (Mokašĭ, “Mokosh”)
    • Russian: мокош (mokoš), мокуш (mokuš), Мокошь (Mokošʹ), макеш (makeš, “demon, helpful spirit, mythical being”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Russian: мо́куша (mókuša), мокуша́ (mokušá), мокоша́ (mokošá), мокуша (mokuša) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: Макешь (Makešʹ), Макош (Makoš) (dialectal?)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Мокош, Мокошка (personal name)

    Latin script: Mokoš, Mokoška (personal name)

• West Slavic:
  • >? Czech: Mokošín (toponym)
    • Moravian: >? mokeš (“nickname”)
  • Old Polabian: *Mokos
    • → Latin: Mukus, Mukes (learned)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мокоша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress