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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic зѣвати (zěvati), from Proto-Slavic *zěvàti. Cognate with Russian зева́ть (zevátʹ).
Verb
зѣвати • (zěvati) impf
- to gape, to yawn
Descendants
Further reading
- Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1993), “зевати”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 12 (зашкодный – злотницкий), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 197
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2005), “зѣвати”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 12 (зливатися – зѧть), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 239