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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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mak-, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ek- (wet, moist).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian makõnė (mud), dialectal Lithuanian mokė (big quagmire), mokas (thick mud). Outside of Balto-Slavic, perhaps cognate with Old Armenian մօր (mōr, mud, marsh), as well as Persian مزه (maze, taste; snack). Vasmer suggests a further cognate with Old Irish móin (swamp, marsh) and Trubachev additionally gives Albanian makë (glue, liquid film).

Verb

*močìti impf

  1. to wet

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мочи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg et al., editors (1963, 1974–2021), “*močiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “698”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 698
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*močìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320:v. (b) ‘wet’
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “močiti: močjǫ močitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b fugte (SA 260; PR 137)