вес
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
вес • (ves) m
- (historical) hamlet (small settlement, camp)
- Synonyms: махала́ (mahalá), ви́лна зо́на (vílna zóna)
Usage notes edit
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.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- 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 edit
Noun edit
вес (ves)
Synonyms edit
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
- вѣсъ (věs) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, nominative plural веса́, genitive plural весо́в, relational adjective весово́й)
Usage notes edit
- The Russian equivalent of "weightless" is either без ве́са or без ве́су.
Declension edit
Related terms edit
- весо́мость (vesómostʹ), весы́ (vesý)
- ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj), уве́систый (uvésistyj)
- ве́сить (vésitʹ), взве́шивать (vzvéšivatʹ)
- ве́ско (vésko), весо́мо (vesómo)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
вес • (ves) m inan (genitive ве́са, uncountable)
- hanging position, suspended position, balanced position; mostly in the expression на весу́ (na vesú, “suspended”)