Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plesti

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-t-, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-. Directly cognate with Latin plectō (“to plait”), inf. plectere, Old High German flehtan (“to plait”), Old Norse flétta (“to plait”). Also cognate with Ancient Greek πλέκω (plékō, “to plait”), Sanskrit प्रश्न (praśna, “plait, braid”).

*plestì^[1]

1. to plait

• *plotъ (“fence”)
• *plětъ (“fence”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: плести (plesti)
    • Belarusian: пле́сці (pljésci)
    • Russian: плести́ (plestí)
    • Ukrainian: плести́ (plestý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: плести (plesti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: плета́ (pletá)
  • Macedonian: плете (plete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: плѐсти

    Latin script: plèsti

  • Slovene: plésti (tonal orthography)
  • → Aromanian: mpiltescu
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plésti
    • Czech: plést
  • Polabian: plist
  • Polish: pleść
  • Slovak: pliesť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: plesć
    • Lower Sorbian: plasć

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плету́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “плести́”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 41