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Russian
Alternative forms
- вос- (vos-) — before a voiceless consonant
Etymology
Traditionally explained as borrowing from Old Church Slavonic въз- (vŭz-); compare inherited cognate вз- (vz-). However, there is an opinion about independent development, compare the words взойти (vzojti), взобраться (vzobratʹsja), взорвать (vzorvatʹ), which indicate the presence of a second /ъ/ in the prefix, which makes it possible to create a strong position for /ъ/ and transition to /o/. Also compare възогъловие (*възъголовие) in birch bark manuscript №469. Per Zaliznyak, prefix възъ- arose by analogy with the Old East Slavic prefixes like отъ- and подъ-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
воз- • (voz-)
- (used with verbs) upwards, up
- (used with verbs) returning, re-
- воз- (voz-) + враща́ть (vraščátʹ, “to turn”) → возвраща́ть (vozvraščátʹ, “to return”)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Andrey Zaliznyak. Drevnenovgorodskij dialekt. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury: Moskva. 2004. page 360