вес

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь (“settlement”). Akin to Bulgarian вила (vila, “villa”) (of Latin origin) and further to archaic English wick (“dwelling”) (found in Gatwick, Reykjavík, etc.). Possibly also related to the ethnonym ви́кинг (víking, “viking”), which is the origin of Bulgarian ви́тег (víteg), ви́тез (vítez, “hero, knight”).

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Noun

вес • (ves) m

1. (historical) hamlet (small settlement, camp)

   Synonyms: махала́ (mahalá), ви́лна зо́на (vílna zóna)

Usage notes

Used until the Ottoman conquest to denote temporary or isolated settlements that lacked the infrastructure to be qualified as full-fledged villages. After the Ottoman conquest, such settlements became known as махала́ (mahalá) - a term used as an administrative unit until the 1980's.

Declension

Derived terms

• ве́сец (vésec)/ви́сец (vísec) (obsolete)
  • Ве́хчани (Véhčani) (village near Ohrid, Macedonia)
  • Белове́шчево (Belovéščevo) (village near Sandanski, Southwestern Bulgaria)
  • Долга́вец (Dolgávec)/Долга́ец (Dolgáec) (village near Prilep, Macedonia)

References

• вьсь in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “*вес”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 136

Nivkh

Noun

вес (ves)

1. (Amur, East Sakhalin, zoology) raven
2. (Amur, zoology) crow

Synonyms

• весӄар (vesqar)
• (raven): атат (atat) (East Sakhalin)
• (crow): атк (atk) (East Sakhalin)

Russian

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Alternative forms

• вѣсъ (věs) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

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• Rhymes: -es

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věsъ. Related to ве́сить (vésitʹ, “to weigh”) and висе́ть (visétʹ, “to hang”). For the semantic shift compare Latin pondus (“weight”) and Latin pendo (“to hang, to suspend, to weigh”).

Noun

вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, nominative plural веса́, genitive plural весо́в, relational adjective весово́й)

1. weight
2. influence, authority, importance

Usage notes

• The Russian equivalent of "weightless" is either без ве́са or без ве́су.

Declension

Related terms

• весо́мость (vesómostʹ), весы́ (vesý)
• ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj), уве́систый (uvésistyj)
• ве́сить (vésitʹ), взве́шивать (vzvéšivatʹ)
• ве́ско (vésko), весо́мо (vesómo)

Etymology 2

Noun

вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, uncountable)

1. hanging position, suspended position, balanced position; mostly in the expression на весу́ (na vesú, “suspended”)

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