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— Я должен вам заметить, Гаврила Ардалионович, — сказал вдруг князь, — что я прежде, действительно, был так нездоров, что и в самом деле был почти идиот; но теперь я давно уже выздоровел, и потому мне несколько неприятно, когда меня называют идиотом в глаза.
— Ja dolžen vam zametitʹ, Gavrila Ardalionovič, — skazal vdrug knjazʹ, — što ja prežde, dejstvitelʹno, byl tak nezdorov, što i v samom dele byl počti idiot; no teperʹ ja davno uže vyzdorovel, i potomu mne neskolʹko neprijatno, kogda menja nazyvajut idiotom v glaza.
"I think I ought to tell you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch," said the prince, suddenly, "that though I once was so ill that I really was little better than an idiot, yet now I am almost recovered, and that, therefore, it is not altogether pleasant to be called an idiot to my face.
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “идиот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “идиот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 336
Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “идиот”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 13