< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pęstь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Balto-Slavic *penkstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pn̥kʷstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“punch”). Cognate with Lithuanian kumštis (with metathesis and loss of *p) and Proto-West Germanic *fūsti.
Noun
*pę̑stь f
- fist
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old Church Slavonic: пѧсть (pęstĭ) (Serbian recension)
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: пясць (pjascʹ)
- Russian: пясть (pjastʹ)
- ⇒ Russian: запя́стье (zapjástʹje)
- Ukrainian: п'ясть (pʺjastʹ)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: зап'я́стя (zapʺjástja)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: п'я́сток (pʺjástok)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian:
- ⇒ Bulgarian: пестни́к (pestník), песни́к (pesník)
- Macedonian:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пе̏ст
- Latin: pȅst
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: pèsnica
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: пѐсница
- Slovene: pest
- Bulgarian:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pěst
- Czech: pěst
- Kashubian: pisc
- Polish: pięść
- Polabian: pąst
- Slovak: päsť
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pěsć
- Upper Sorbian: pjasć
- Old Czech: pěst
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пясть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pęstь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399