лѣсъ

From Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

лѣсъ • (lěsŭ) m

1. forest
2. woods
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 1794-1796:

     бо би велѣлъ богъ не дѣлати чловѣкомъ то бꙑлиѥ жито би раждало и лѣсъ грозниѥ.

     bo bi velělŭ bogŭ ne dělati člověkomŭ to bylije žito bi raždalo i lěsŭ groznije.

     If God had ordered men not to work, plants would grow grain and woods grapes.

   • from Vita Methodii, 0700210:

     и азъ на лѣсѣ надаю, своі дьнь съконьчавъ.

     i azŭ na lěsě nadaju, svoi dĭnĭ sŭkonĭčavŭ.

     Now my days are ending and I am waiting for the woods.

From Proto-Slavic *lě̑sъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic лѣсъ (lěsŭ) and Old Polish las.

• Hyphenation: лѣ‧съ

лѣсъ (lěsŭ) m (diminutive лѣсъкъ or лѣсьць, related adjective лѣсьнъ)

1. forest
2. timber

• Old Ruthenian: лѣсъ (lěs)
  • Belarusian: лес (ljes)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: лїс (ljis)
  • Ukrainian: ліс (lis)
• Russian: лес (les)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “лѣсъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 76

лѣсъ • (lěs) m inan (genitive лѣ́са, nominative plural лѣса́, genitive plural лѣсо́въ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of лес (les).