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Ukrainian
- іті́ (ití)
- єбти́ (jebtý), їбти́ (jibtý) (with secondarily restored -б- (-b-))
Etymology
Inherited from Old Ruthenian *єти (*jeti), from Old East Slavic ети (eti), from Proto-Slavic *jetì (“to copulate”).[1][2] Cognate with Russian е́ть (jétʹ), ети́ (jetí), Old Novgorodian ѥти (jeti), Ancient Greek οἴφω (oíphō), Sanskrit यभति (yábhati).[3]
Pronunciation
Verb
є́ти • (jéty) impf
- (archaic, dialectal, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
References
- ^ Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “єба́ти”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 307: “єбти́, є́ти (< *jeb-ti) ‘to have a sexual intercourse’”
- ^ Anikin, A. E. (2021) “ебáть”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 15 (друг – еренга), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 229: “укр. jéty ― ukr. jéty”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*etì; *ebàti; *ěbàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 147: “v. (c) ‘copulate’”