Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věsiti

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

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Verb

*věsiti

1. (transitive) to hang (to cause to be suspended)

Inflection

Conjugation of *věsiti, *věsi, *věsitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*věšenьje	*věsiti	*věsitъ	*věsilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*věšenъ	*věsimъ
Active	*věšь	*věsę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*věsixъ	*věsi	*věsi	*věšǫ	*věsiši	*věsitь
Dual	*věsixově	*věsista	*věsiste	*věsivě	*věsita	*věsite
Plural	*věsixomъ	*věsiste	*věsišę	*věsimъ	*věsite	*věsętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*věšaaxъ	*věšaaše	*věšaaše	—	*věsi	*věsi
Dual	*věšaaxově	*věšaašeta	*věšaašete	*věsivě	*věsita	—
Plural	*věšaaxomъ	*věšaašete	*věšaaxǫ	*věsimъ	*věsite	—

Notes:
• (*)*věsivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

noun

• *věsъ

 

verb

• *visěti

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Belarusian: паве́сіць (pavjésicʹ)
  • Russian: ве́сить (vésitʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ві́сити (vísyty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вѣсити (věsiti)

  • Bulgarian: ве́ся (vésja)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀бјесити

    Latin script: òbjesiti

  • Slovene: vẹ́siti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: věsit (rare)
  • Old Polish: wiesić
    • Middle Polish: wiesić, *wiessić, *więsić
  • ⇒ Polabian: vibesĕt
  • Slovak: vesiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjesyć

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ве́сить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress