Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běsiti

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.

Denominal causative from *běsъ (“rage, rabies”) +‎ *-iti.

*běsiti impf^[1]

1. (transitive) to enrage, to make angry
2. (reflexive) to get mad

• *běsьnъ (“angry, enraged, berserk”)
• *běsěti (“to have rabies”)
• *běsovati (“to do crazy things”)
• *běsьněti (“to run amok”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: беси́ть (besítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: біси́тися (bisýtysja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: бѣсити (běsiti)
  • Bulgarian: беся́ се (besjá se, “to be mad”) (rare)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: вбеся̀вам (vbesjàvam, “to enrage”)
  • Serbo-Croatian: бе́сити се (rare)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: biesić (archaic)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běsiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бяс, бешение”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 109