Lexicon of Old Church Slavonic Verbs

Verbs based on root *mol-

u-moljati
3sg.prs umoljaetъ (i-aje-stem), 2/3sg.aor umolja (i-a-stem)
Leskien class III
ipf aspect
transitive
arguments: acc
prefix variation: pri-, u- (ipf)

Mikl. only, from 15th c.


moliti
3sg.prs molitъ (i-stem), 2/3sg.aor moli (i-stem)
Leskien class IV
ipf aspect
ambitransitive
arguments: acc/sę, dat, o + loc, za + acc
prefix variation: do-, iz-, otъ-, po-, pri-, priu-, u- (pf)

Derksen (320): metathesis of *-ld- (slk. modliť) possibly because of a taboo
LIV (432): a denominal of modla (< *mold-ta) ?

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Examples in the corpus: izmolja molba molebnica molenie molitva molitvenik molja pomolja umolja

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