бесѣдовати

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• Glagolitic: ⰱⰵⱄⱑⰴⱁⰲⰰⱅⰻ (besědovati)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *besědovati.

Verb

бесѣдовати • (besědovati) impf

1. to talk
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 1802-1803:

     вьсꙗ бо ꙗже хотѧще дѣлати и бесѣдовати подобаѥтъ прѣжде помꙑшлꙗти

     vĭsja bo jaže xotęšte dělati i besědovati podobajetŭ prěžde pomyšljati

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

present tense of бесѣдовати (besědovati) singular dual plural азъ (azŭ) тꙑ (ty) тъ (tŭ) вѣ (vě) ва (va) та (ta) мꙑ (my) вꙑ (vy) ти (ti) бесѣдоуѭ (besědujǫ) бесѣдоуѥши (besěduješi) бесѣдоуѥтъ (besědujetŭ) бесѣдоуѥвѣ (besědujevě) бесѣдоуѥта (besědujeta) бесѣдоуѥте (besědujete) бесѣдоуѥмъ (besědujemŭ) бесѣдоуѥте (besědujete) бесѣдоуѫтъ (besěduǫtŭ)

References

• S. C. Gardiner, Old church Slavonic: an elementary grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Further reading

• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 83
• Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “бесѣдовати”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae)‎^[1], volume 1, Prague: Euroslavica, page 87