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Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vьsь (“settlement”). Akin to Bulgarian вила (vila, “villa”) (of Latin origin) and further to archaic English wick (“dwelling”) (found in Gatwick, Reykjavík, etc.). Possibly also related to the ethnonym ви́кинг (víking, “viking”), which is the origin of Bulgarian ви́тег (víteg), ви́тез (vítez, “hero, knight”).
Pronunciation
Noun
вес • (ves) m
- (historical) hamlet (small settlement, camp)
- Synonyms: махала́ (mahalá), ви́лна зо́на (vílna zóna)
Usage notes
Used until the Ottoman conquest to denote temporary or isolated settlements that lacked the infrastructure to be qualified as full-fledged villages. After the Ottoman conquest, such settlements became known as махала́ (mahalá) - a term used as an administrative unit until the 1980's.
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Derived terms
References
- вьсь in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “*вес”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 136
Nivkh
Pronunciation
Noun
вес (ves)
- (Amur, East Sakhalin, zoology) raven
- (Amur, zoology) crow
Synonyms
- весӄар (vesqar)
- (raven): атат (atat) (East Sakhalin)
- (crow): атк (atk) (East Sakhalin)
Russian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věsъ. Related to ве́сить (vésitʹ, “to weigh”) and висе́ть (visétʹ, “to hang”). For the semantic shift compare Latin pondus (“weight”) and Latin pendo (“to hang, to suspend, to weigh”).
Noun
вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, nominative plural веса́, genitive plural весо́в, relational adjective весово́й)
- weight
- influence, authority, importance
Usage notes
- The Russian equivalent of "weightless" is either без ве́са or без ве́су.
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, uncountable)
- hanging position, suspended position, balanced position; mostly in the expression на весу́ (na vesú, “suspended”)
Declension
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singular
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nominative
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ве́с vés
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genitive
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ве́са vésa
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dative
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ве́су vésu
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accusative
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ве́с vés
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instrumental
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ве́сом vésom
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prepositional
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ве́се vése
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locative
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на весу́ na vesú
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