Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pęstь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Indo-European *pn̥kʷstis, from *pénkʷe (“five”).

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) (запя́стье (zapjástʹje) secondary)
- Ukrainian: [Term?] (зап'ястя (zapʺjastja) secondary)

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: [Term?] (пестни́к (pestník), песни́к (pesník) secondary)
- Macedonian: [Term?]
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пе̏ст (pèsnica secondary)
  
  Latin: pȅst (пѐсница secondary)
- Slovene: pest

West Slavic:
- Czech: pěst
- Polish: pięść
- Kashubian: pisc
- Slovak: päsť
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pěsć
  - Upper Sorbian: pjasć

References

Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “пясть”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, 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

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