речи

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Bulgarian

Pronunciation

Verb

речи́ (rečí)

  1. second-person singular imperative of река́ (reká)

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *reťi. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic рещи (rešti) and Old Polish rzec.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈt͡ɕi//rʲɛˈt͡ɕi//rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /rɛˈt͡ɕi/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/

  • Hyphenation: ре‧чи

Verb

речи (rečiimpf

  1. (transitive) to say
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 2:
      рече бо въ сьрдьци моѥмь съкрꙑхъ словеса твоꙗ да не съгрѣшѫ тебѣ·
      reče bo vŭ sĭrdĭci mojemĭ sŭkryxŭ slovesa tvoja da ne sŭgrěšǫ tebě·
      For said: In my heart I hid your words so I won't commit a sin before you

Conjugation

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Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: речи́ (rečí)
  • Russian: речи́ (rečí) (dialectal)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “речи”, 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), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 118

Russian

Pronunciation

Noun

ре́чи (réčif inan or f inan pl

  1. inflection of речь (rečʹ):
    1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural