Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motyľь

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

Alternative reconstructions

*motuľь, *motъľь, *moteľь

Etymology

From *motati +‎ *-yľь.

Noun

*motyľь m (feminine *motyľa)^[1]

butterfly, moth

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *мотꙑль (*motylĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: моты́ль (motýlʹ)
    - Belarusian: маты́ль (matýlʹ); мо́тыль (mótylʹ) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: моты́ль (motŷ́lʹ)
    - Ukrainian: моти́ль (motýlʹ); мати́ль (matýlʹ), моті́ль (motílʹ) (dialectal)
  - Russian: моты́ль (motýlʹ)
South Slavic:
- Slovene: metulj
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: motýl
  - Czech: motýl; motiľ, motyľa f, motyla f, motyľ (dialectal)
- Old Polish: motyl
  - Polish: motyl; motyͤl, mᵘ̯otyl (dialectal)
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: mòtil
- Slovak: motýľ

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*motyľь I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 84

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*motyľь I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 84

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