From Proto-Finnic *vësa. Cognate to Estonian võsa, Ingrian vesa, Karelian vesa, Livonian võzā, Livvi veza, Ludian veza, Veps veza and Votic võsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋesɑ/, [ˈʋe̞s̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -esɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ve‧sa

vesa

1. A new shoot or sprout of a plant, especially a new branch of a tree or the new growth at the tip of a branch.
2. A young tree.
3. scion (descendant)
4. (informal) child, kid

• “vesa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

vesa

1. inflection of vesar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *vësa. Cognates include Finnish vesa and Estonian võsa.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋesɑ/, [ˈʋe̞s̠ɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋesɑ/, [ˈʋe̞ʒ̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -esɑ
• Hyphenation: ve‧sa

vesa

1. shoot, sprout of a tree

• oras, taimi

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 658

From Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. Compare Latin Vesta (“goddess of the hearth”), Sanskrit वसति (vásati, “dwell”). Some forms are suppletive and instead derive from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti. Evolved to younger variant vera. The form est could be explained by the etymology which Prokosch and Noreen offer (the original second person singular es + -t from the analogy of preterite-present verbs and/or the accretion of the second person singular nominative personal pronoun). The resemblance of these forms to the present plural forms erum, eruð, eru is probably coincidence; the vowel /e/ of the Old Norse forms is better accounted for if these are descended from Proto-Germanic *izum etc. with Old Norse lowering of *i > e _*R (< *z).^[1]

vesa

1. Archaic form of vera.

• “vesa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• E. Prokosch, A Comparative Germanic Grammar, 1939, The Linguistic Society of America for Yale University.
• A. Noreen, Geschichte der nordischen Sprachen, 1913, Trübner, Straßburg.