песъ

See also: песь

Old East Slavic

Noun

песъ (pesŭ) m

1. Alternative form of пьсъ (pĭsŭ)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “песъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1778

Old Ruthenian

песъ

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic песъ (pesŭ), пь́съ (pĭ́sŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pь̀sъ. Cognate with Russian пёс (pjos), Old Church Slavonic пьсъ (pĭsŭ), Old Czech pes.

Noun

песъ • (pes) m animal (related adjective песый)

1. dog

   Synonym: соба́ка (sobáka)

   естли бы в кого песъ домовыⸯ албо быдлѧ ꙗкую шкоду ꙋ ѡколицы чинило ― estli by v koho pes domovyj albo bydlja jakuju škodu u okolicy činilo ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• Belarusian: пёс (pjos)
• Carpathian Rusyn: пес (pes)
• Ukrainian: пес (pes)

Further reading

• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “песъ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 140
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2005), “песъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 24 (паприца – побужоный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 269