Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/těšiti

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-Balto-Slavic *taisītei. Compare *tixъ (“quiet, still”). Cognate with Latvian taisīt and Lithuanian taisýti.

*těšiti

1. (transitive) to calm, to soothe, to suckle, to quieten
2. (transitive) to comfort, to console

• East Slavic
  • Old East Slavic: тѣшити (těšiti)
    • ⇒ Belarusian: пацяшаць (pacjašacʹ)
    • Russian: те́шить (téšitʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ті́шити (tíšyty)
• South Slavic
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: оутѣшити (utěšiti)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: утеша̀ (utešà)
    • Macedonian: теши (teši)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те̏шити, ће̏шити, тје̏шити

    Latin script: tȅšiti, ćȅšiti, tjȅšiti

  • Slovene: tẹ́šiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Czech: těšit
  • Old Polish: cieszyć
    • Polish: cieszyć
    • Silesian: cieszyć
  • Slovak: tešiť
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: ceszëc
    • Slovincian: cêszëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: śěšyś
    • Upper Sorbian: ćěšić

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “те́шить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress