згоріти

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Ukrainian згорѣти (zhority)[1] and изгорѣти (yzhority),[2] from Old East Slavic изгорѣти (izgorěti),[3] from Proto-Slavic *jьzgorěti. By surface analysis, з- (z-) +‎ горі́ти (horíty). Compare Russian сгоре́ть (sgorétʹ), Belarusian згарэ́ць (zharécʹ), Polish zgorzeć.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [zɦoˈrʲite]
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

згорі́ти • (zhorítypf (imperfective згоря́ти or згора́ти) (intransitive)

  1. to burn down (to burn completely, so that nothing remains)
    згорі́ти дотла́zhoríty dotláto burn to the ground
  2. to burn up (to catch fire and burn until destroyed)
  3. to burn out (to become extinguished due to lack of fuel)
  4. (of plants, crops) to be scorched (to be withered or parched by heat)
  5. (figuratively, of a person) to perish (prematurely, due to exhaustion or illness)
  6. (figuratively) to burn [with від (vid, + genitive) ‘with (emotion)’]

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2004), “згорѣти, згорети, зъгорѣти”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 11 (затраченє – злечитисѧ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 167
  2. ^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*изгорѣти”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 426
  3. ^ Avanesov, R. I., editor (1990), “изгорѣти”, in Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.): в 10 т. [Dictionary of the Old Russian Language (11ᵗʰ–14ᵗʰ cc.): in 10 vols] (in Russian), volume 3 (добродѣтельно – изжечисѧ), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 496

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