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 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”).

*močìti impf

1. to wet

• *moča, *močь (“wetness, puddle, urine”)
• *mokrъ (“wet, damp”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мочити (močiti)
    • Belarusian: мачы́ць (mačýcʹ)
    • Russian: мочи́ть (močítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: мочи́ти (močýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: мочити (močiti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: мо́ча (móča) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: моча (moča)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мо̀чити

    Latin script: mòčiti

  • Slovene: močīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: močiti
    • Czech: močit
  • Polabian: mücĕ (3sg.)
  • Old Polish: moczyć
    • Polish: moczyć
  • Slovak: močiť
  • Slovincian: môczic
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: močić
    • Lower Sorbian: mócyś

• 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