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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *želsti, either borrowed from or cognate to Proto-Germanic *geldaną. Compare Old East Slavic желести (želesti).
Verb
жлѣсти • (žlěsti) impf or pf
- to repay
- to compensate
Conjugation
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References
- “жлѣсти”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025
- Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2018), “žlěsti”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 19 (zakonъ – žьzlъ), Brno: Tribun EU, →ISBN, page 1157