ѣсти

Old Church Slavonic

Verb

ѣсти • (ěsti)

  1. alternative spelling of ꙗсти (jasti)

Conjugation

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

  • ѣ́ти (jě́ti), ѣ́сьти (jě́sʹti), ѣ́сть (jě́stʹ)
  • є́сти (jésti) alternative spelling

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁édti

Inherited from Old East Slavic ѣсти (ěsti), from Proto-Slavic *ě̀sti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀstei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed-.

Verb

ѣсти • (jěsti) impf (perfective зъѣ́сти)

  1. to eat

Descendants

  • Belarusian: е́сці (jésci), е́сьці (jésʹci)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: ї́сти (jísty)
  • Ukrainian: ї́сти (jísty)

Further reading

  • Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1989), “ести, есть, есьти, ети”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 9 (дорогоценный – жеребей), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 225
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