витать

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic витати (vitati). From Proto-Slavic *vitati (to dwell; to welcome). The primary meanings "to hover, to soar, to linger (in air)" arose due to the verb's common usage in Old Church Slavonic to refer to birds in the trees.

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Verb

вита́ть (vitátʹimpf

  1. to hover (to float in the air)
  2. to soar (to fly aloft with little effort; to rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood)
    вита́ть в облака́хvitátʹ v oblakáxto be head in the clouds
  3. to dwell, to be present invisibly, to be in the air (of smell, of sensation, etc.)
  4. (obsolete) to dwell, to stay somewhere
  5. (obsolete) to greet

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