мовити
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Alternative forms
- мо́вить (móvitʹ)
- мо́лвити (mólviti) — archaic form
Etymology
From early мо́лвити (mólviti) with labiovelarization -olv- > -oŭv- > -ov-, inherited from Old East Slavic мъ́лвити (mŭ́lviti), from Proto-Slavic *mъ̀lviti, from *mъ̀lva; or continues Proto-Balto-Slavic *múlˀwīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥wH-éye-ti, from *mlewH-.[1] By surface analysis, мо́ва (móva) + -ити (-iti).
Verb
мовити • (moviti) impf
- to speak
Related terms
adverbs
- мовно (movno)
adjectives
- мовеный (movenyj)
- мовленый (movlenyj)
- мовный (movnyj)
- мовѧчїй (movjačij)
- мовѧщїй (movjaščij)
nouns
- мо́ва f (móva)
- мовенье n (movenʹje)
- мовленье n (movlenʹje)
- мовловство (movlovstvo)
- мовность (movnostʹ)
- мовца f (movca)
verbs
- мовитисѧ (movitisja)
- мовлꙗти (movljati)
- мовꙗти (movjati)
Descendants
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъlviti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 227: “ст.-укр. молвити (1370), мовити (1388); ст.-бел. молвити, мовити ― st.-ukr. molviti (1370), moviti (1388); st.-bel. molviti, moviti”
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