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Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
подоба (podoba) + -ити (-iti)
Verb
подобити • (podobiti) impf
- (reflexive) to be like
- Matthew 6:8, from Codex Marianus, 1060800:
не подобите сѧ ꙋбо имъ ·- ne podobite sę ubo imŭ ·
- Be not therefore like unto them
- (reflexive) imitate, emulate, resemble
- from the Life of Constantine:
оучителѧ не имамъ таковаго, иже бꙑ нꙑ въ свои ꙗзꙑкъ истоую вѣроу христꙇаньскоую сказалъ, да бꙑша и инꙑ странꙑ того зрѧще подобили сѧ намъ.- učitelę ne imamŭ takovago, iže by ny vŭ svoi jazykŭ istuju věru xristianĭskuju skazalŭ, da byša i iny strany togo zręšte podobili sę namŭ.
- we have no such teacher who would explain the true Christian faith to us in our own tongue, so that even the countries here, seeing this, might emulate us.
Conjugation