wessals

Old Prussian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéselas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weselos. Cognate with Lithuanian vẽselas, Latvian vesels and Proto-Slavic *vȅselъ.

Adjective

wessals

  1. joyful, merry, cheerful

References

  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “wessals”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
  • G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “wessals”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 204