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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

Etymology

From *motati + *-yľь.

Noun

*motyľь m (feminine *motyľa)[1]

  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:
  • West Slavic:

References

  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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