єднати

Probably inherited from Old Ruthenian еднати (ednati, “to reconcile, to ask for, to appease”) with the later semantic shift to "to unite", ultimately from Old Polish jednać. By surface analysis, (dialectal) єден (jeden) +‎ -а́ти (-áty).

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єдна́ти • (jednáty) impf (transitive)

1. to unite, to bond, to bring together
2. to join, to connect
3. (archaic) to talk into, to persuade
4. (archaic) to betroth

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “єднати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “єднати”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “єднати”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “єднати”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “єднати”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• “єднати”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “єднати”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)