From *tęžьkъ (“heavy”) + *-ostь. *<span class="searchmatch">tęžestь</span> f burden, heaviness * The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while...
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(“heavy”) *<span class="searchmatch">tęžestь</span> (“wight”) *tǫga (“sadness, burden”) *tǫgъ (“tight, solid, tough”) *tęžava (“wight”) *težalivъ (“heavy, severe”) South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Old Church...
*ting(je)tei Proto-Slavic: ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *<span class="searchmatch">tęžestь</span> (“weight”) (see there for further descendants) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Germanic: *þungijaną (“to weigh down, make heavy”)...
past active participle *tęgti, *tędzati (“to pull”) *tęžьkъ (“heavy”) *<span class="searchmatch">tęžestь</span> (“wight”) *tǫga (“sadness, burden”) *tǫgъ (“tight, solid, tough”) *težina...
*tę̏želъ heavy, weighty grave, severe *tęžьkъ (“heavy”) *<span class="searchmatch">tęžestь</span> (“weight”) *tęglo (“weight”) East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Russian: тяжёлый (tjažólyj), чижёлый (čižólyj) (dialectal)...