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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/motuľь

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 *motati +‎ *-uľь.

Noun

*motuľь m[1]

  1. Alternative reconstruction of *motyľь (“butterfly, moth”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *мотуль (*motulĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: *мотуль (*motulʹ)
        • Belarusian: мітули́ pl (mitulí) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: матуль (matulʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: мо̀туљ (dialectal)
      Latin script: mòtulj (dialectal)
    • Slovene: motúlj (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: motoul

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*motuľь”, 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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