німіти

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *něměti, from *němъ + *-ěti. By surface analysis, німи́й (nimýj) +‎ -і́ти (-íty). Compare Russian неме́ть (nemétʹ), Belarusian няме́ць (njamjécʹ), Polish niemieć.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nʲiˈmʲite]
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Verb

німі́ти • (nimítyimpf (perfective онімі́ти) (intransitive)

  1. to become dumb, to become mute, to become speechless
  2. to become numb, to go numb, to become torpid
    Synonym: затерпа́ти impf (zaterpáty)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • понімі́ти pf (ponimíty)

References

  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2019), “німіти”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 10 (на́ступ – о́бміль), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
  • німіти”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

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