Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moča

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 forms

*močь m

Etymology

From *mok- (“wet”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*moča f

wetness, puddle, urine

Inflection

Declension of *moča (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*moča	*moči	*močę̇
genitive	*močę̇	*moču	*močь
dative	*moči	*močama	*močamъ
accusative	*močǫ	*moči	*močę̇
instrumental	močejǫ, močǫ^**	*močama	*močami
locative	*moči	*moču	močasъ, močaxъ^*
vocative	*moče	*moči	*močę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: моча f (moča)
  - Belarusian: мача (mača)
  - Russian: моча́ f (močá)
  - Ukrainian: міч f (mič)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: моча f (moča), мочь (močĭ)
- Bulgarian: моч (moč)
- Macedonian: моч f (moč)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: мо́ча f
  
  Latin script: móča f
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): mȍča
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): mȍča
- Slovene: moča m
West Slavic:
- Czech: moč f
- Polish: mocz m
- Slovak: moč m
- Sorbian
  - Upper Sorbian: moč m

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*moča; močь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 319
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “моча́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress