Mind & speech

song

Source:*pěsnьProto-Slavicprobable

From *pěti 'to sing'. The BCS suffix -ma is a later remodelling, so its exact derivation is less certain than the rest.

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English

song

Polish

piosenka

pjɔˈsɛŋka

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
пе́сняpesnja
ˈpʲesʲnʲəinherited
Ukrainian
пі́сняpisnja
ˈpʲisʲnʲainherited
Polish
piosenka
pjɔˈsɛŋkainherited
A diminutive; the plain pieśń is a solemn song or hymn.
Czech
píseň
ˈpiːsɛɲinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
pjesma / pesmaпјесма / песма
ˈpjesmainherited
Built with a different suffix (older pjesan); it also means 'poem'.
English
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