Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věsiti

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*věsiti

1. (transitive) to hang (to cause to be suspended)

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Belarusian: паве́сіць (pavjésicʹ)
  • Russian: ве́сить (vésitʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ві́сити (vísyty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вѣсити (věsiti)

  • Bulgarian: ве́ся (vésja)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀бјесити

    Latin script: òbjesiti

  • Slovene: vẹ́siti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: věsit (rare)
  • Old Polish: wiesić
    • Middle Polish: wiesić, *wiessić, *więsić
  • ⇒ Polabian: vibesĕt
  • Slovak: vesiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjesyć

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