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can, to be able

Source:*mogtiProto-Slaviccertain

*gt fused into one consonant: Russian ч, Polish c, BCS ć. Present: могу́, мо́жу, mogę, můžu (mohu), mogu.

I knowI'm learning

English

can, to be able

Polish

móc

muts

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
мочьmočʹ
motɕinherited
Ukrainian
могти́mohty
mɔɦˈtɪinherited
Polish
móc
mutsinherited
Czech
moct
motstinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
moćiмоћи
ˈmotɕiinherited
English
can, to be able
Distant English relative: may — May, might and *mogti share the Indo-European root *magʰ- 'be able'.