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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic вꙑ- (vy-), from Proto-Slavic *vy- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd, or Proto-Indo-European *(H)ud (Derksen), or *ūd- : *ūt- (Černyx). In Slavic, the final consonant was dropped.
Cognates include English out, German aus (“out”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
вы́- • (vý-) (this prefix almost invariably bears the stress in perfective verbs, but not in imperfective verbs)
- (used with verbs) out, out from (describing an action of moving outside from inside)
- вы́- (vý-) + -йти́ (-jtí, “to go”) → вы́йти (výjti, “to go out”)
- (used with verbs) completion or fulfillment
- вы́- (vý-) + кури́ть (kurítʹ, “to smoke”) → вы́курить (výkuritʹ, “to smoke to the end”)
Derived terms
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вы-”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “вы-”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 173