Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plęsati

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.

Unclear.

• Vasmer: cognate with Old Lithuanian plenšti, dial. plęšti; pląšti.
• Černyx: Old Lithuanian words were borrowed from Slavic.

*plęsati

1. to dance

• *plęsica f (“dancer”)
• *plęsьcь m (“dancer”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: плѧсати (plęsati)
    • Russian: пляса́ть (pljasátʹ)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: плясати (pljasaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: плѧсати (plęsati)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰾⱔⱄⰰⱅⰻ (plęsati)

  • Bulgarian: dial. пле́ша (pléša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пле́сати

    Latin script: plésati

  • Slovene: plẹ́sati, plesáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: plesat
  • Polabian: pľǫsăt
  • Old Polish: plęsać
    • Polish: pląsać
  • Slovak: plesať

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Gothic: 𐍀𐌻𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (plinsjan)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плясать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пляса́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 46