почитание

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Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From почитати (počitati, read) +‎ -ние (-nije).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔt͡ɕiˈtɑnɪjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtɑnijɛ//pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲɪjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲijɛ//pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲijɛ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /pɔt͡ɕiˈtɑnɪjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtɑnijɛ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲɪjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲijɛ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲjɛ/, /pɔt͡ɕiˈtanʲijɛ/

  • Hyphenation: по‧чи‧та‧ни‧е

Noun

почитание (počitanijen

  1. reading
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 3:
      ни правьдникъ [съставить сѧ] бес почитаниꙗ книжьнааго
      ni pravĭdnikŭ [sŭstavitĭ sę] bes počitanija knižĭnaago
      nor a righteous person without a reading of the books

Declension

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “почитание”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1326

Russian

Etymology

почита́ть (počitátʹ) +‎ -а́ние (-ánije)

Pronunciation

Noun

почита́ние (počitánijen inan (genitive почита́ния, uncountable)

  1. honouring/honoring, respect, esteem
  2. reverence, worship

Declension