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Old Church Slavonic
Verb
ѣсти • (ěsti)
- alternative spelling of ꙗсти (jasti)
Conjugation
Old Ruthenian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic ѣсти (ěsti), from Proto-Slavic *ě̀sti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀstei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed-.
Verb
ѣсти • (jěsti) impf (perfective зъѣ́сти)
- to eat
Descendants
Further reading
- Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1989), “ести, есть, есьти, ети”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 9 (дорогоценный – жеребей), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 225