разумѣти

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Church Slavonic разоумѣти (razuměti), equivalent to разумъ (razumŭ, mind) +‎ -ѣти (-jěti).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑzuˈmeːti//razuˈmʲeːtʲi//razuˈmʲeːtʲi/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /rɑzuˈmeːti/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /razuˈmʲeːtʲi/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /razuˈmʲeːtʲi/

  • Hyphenation: ра‧зу‧мѣ‧ти

Verb

разумѣти (razumětipf (imperfective разумѣвати)

  1. (transitive) to understand
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 4:
      отъкрꙑи бо рече очи мои да раꙁоумѣю чюдеса отъ ꙁакона твоѥго
      otŭkryi bo reče oči moi da razuměju čjudesa otŭ zakona tvojego
      For he says "Open my eyes so that I understand the miracles from your testament."

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: разуме́ти (razuméti)
  • Russian: разуме́ть (razumétʹ)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “разꙋмѣти”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 57