Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěšь

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From earlier *pědšь, from Early Proto-Slavic *pḗ˙dsju, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pḗˀdsjas, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Adjective

*pěšь[1]

  1. pedestrian
  2. on foot

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: пѣшь (pěšĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: пѣ́шїй (pě́šij), пѣ́шый (pě́šyj)
        • Belarusian: пе́шы (pjéšy)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: пі́шый (píšŷj)
        • Ukrainian: піший (pišyj)
      • Russian: пе́ший (péšij)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⱂⱑⱎⱐ (pěšĭ)
      Old Cyrillic script: пѣшь (pěšĭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пjе̏ше
      Latin script: pješe
    • Slovene: ре̣̑šji (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: pěší
    • Polish: pieszy
    • Old Slovak: peší
      • Pannonian Rusyn: пешо (pešo)
      • Slovak: peší
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: ре̌šу
      • Upper Sorbian: pěši

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pěšь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398:adj. jo ‘pedestrian, on foot’