бѣсъ

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *běsъ (demon, evil spirit).

Noun

бѣсъ (běsŭm

  1. demon, evil spirit
  2. (Christianity) pagan god
    • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 384-387:
      къто ли не веселитъ сѧ видѧ крьстꙑ на вꙑсокꙑихъ мѣстѣхъ стоѩщѧ на нихъже прѣжде жьрѣахѫ бѣсомъ чловѣци
      kŭto li ne veselitŭ sę vidę krĭsty na vysokyixŭ městěxŭ stojęštę na nixŭže prěžde žĭrěaxǫ běsomŭ člověci
      Who has not rejoiced to see crosses set up in high places, where once men sacrificed to demons?
    • Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), “бѣсомъ”, in Codex Suprasliensis (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 58.5, line 29:
      и҅ въшьдъ҆ нечь҆стивꙑи а҅нѳѵпатъ · въ цръквище а҅полоново · повелѣ привести с꙯тааго кодрата · и҅ прокꙑѩ приведеномꙿ же и҅мъ бꙑвъшемъ · ноуждаꙿше ѩ пожръти нечьстивꙑи҅мъ бѣсомъ ·
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка, София

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *běsъ (demon, evil spirit).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeːsʊ//ˈbʲeːsʊ//ˈbʲɛːs/, /ˈbʲeːs/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbeːsʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲeːsʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛːs/, /ˈbʲeːs/

  • Hyphenation: бѣ‧съ

Noun

бѣсъ (běsŭm[1]

  1. demon, evil spirit

Inflection

Accent paradigm c, (deviation to accent paradigm b).

Descendants

  • Belarusian: бес (bjes)
  • Russian: бес (bes)
  • Ukrainian: біс (bis)

References

  1. ^ Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 523:бѣ́съbě́s

Russian

Noun

бѣсъ (běsm anim (genitive бѣ́са, nominative plural бѣ́сы, genitive plural бѣ́совъ, relational adjective бѣсо́вскій, diminutive бѣсёнокъ)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of бес (bes).

Declension